Environmentalism and economic justice
Subtitle: two Chicano struggles in the Southwest
By: Laura Pulido.
Series: Society, environment, and place
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Environmentalism -- Southwestern States; Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Southwestern States -- Case studies; Social ecology -- Southwestern States; Sustainable development -- Southwestern States; Social justice
Description: Environmentalism and Economic Justice spotlights another front in the ongoing wars over environmental issues, a front being fought by Chicano communities in the American Southwest. The book concentrates on struggles surrounding both the 1965-71 pesticide campaign of the United Farm Workers and a grazing conflict involving a Hispano cooperative and mainstream environmentalists in northern New Mexico.

Within these stories, readers will find broader implications for understanding how minority groups are using available resources to mobilize and improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Subaltern environmental struggles; title: Poverty, "race," and identity in the creation of subalternity; title: The pesticide campaign of the UFW organizing committee, 1965-71; title: Ganados del valle : resource management as contested terrain; title: Politics, identity, and the future of environmentalism.