Mexican Americans and the Environment

Name: Mexican Americans and the Environment
Brand: University of Arizona Press
SKU: 9780816522118
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Tierra Y Vida

Szerző: Devon Gerardo Pena

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Arizona Press

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Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la...

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Szerző

Devon Gerardo Pena

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2005

oldal

230

EAN

9780816522118

ISBN

9780816522118

Enbook ID

06353951

Kiadó

University of Arizona Press

Súly

358

Méretek

154 x 236 x 16

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Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of life--activists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many others--who provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norteno land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Mexican Americans and the Environment introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as ittells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete unless it takes into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it shows students that ecology embrac

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