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Environmental Justice and the Three Great Myths of White Americana

Luke W. Cole

West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, 2008-01, Vol.14, p.573-1703

University of California, Hastings College of the Law West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy

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  • Título:
    Environmental Justice and the Three Great Myths of White Americana
  • Autor: Luke W. Cole
  • Assuntos: compelling ; correctly ; demonstration ; discussion ; disproportionate ; environmental ; environmental law ; governments ; incompatible ; neighborhood ; participants ; pinderhughes ; public health & welfare law
  • É parte de: West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, 2008-01, Vol.14, p.573-1703
  • Notas: In the environmental justice movement we face many hurdles, some of our own making. In this essay, I want to focus on some of those hurdles, which I call the three great myths of white Americana, and how they play out in the environmental justice ...
  • Descrição: In the environmental justice movement we face many hurdles, some of our own making. In this essay, I want to focus on some of those hurdles, which I call the three great myths of white Americana, and how they play out in the environmental justice context. All of us who are advocates for environmental justice will encounter these myths in one form or another, and debunking them is crucial to our quest. Before examining the myths, some context is in order; the first section of this essay discusses what participants at the Symposium on Urban Environmental Issues in the Bay Area had to say about "environmental justice" meaning in the urban context. The following sections then lay out the myths. I. Environmental Justice in the Urban Context "Environmental justice" has been defined in a number of ways. 1 One of the starting points in any discussion of environmental justice, however, is at the problem that we seek to address through environmental justice, which many have called environmental racism. 2 At the West-Northwest Symposium, several speakers gave compelling, first-hand evidence of environmental racism: Francine Carter painted a picture of incompatible land uses forced on the largely African American Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, and the disproportionate impact of environ-mental hazards that is a clear demonstration of environmental racism in that community. 3 Raquel Pinderhughes correctly pointed out that this type of disproportionate impact is a symptom of a broader, systemic societal racism; ...
  • Editor: University of California, Hastings College of the Law West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy
  • Idioma: Inglês
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