Environmental Justice in Postwar America – A Documentary Reader Wells Sutter

Environmental Justice in Postwar AmericaA Documentary Reader\nAuthor(s): Christopher W. Wells, Paul S. Sutter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295743684, 978-0295743684\nSynopsis\nIn the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluencebut these developments came at the cost of a host of new environmental problems. Unsurprisingly, a disproportionate number of them, such as pollution-emitting factories, waste-handling facilities, and big infrastructure projects, ended up in communities dominated by people of color. Constrained by long-standing practices of segregation that limited their housing and employment options, people of color bore an unequal share of postwar Americas environmental burdens.\n\nThis reader collects a wide range of primary source documents on the rise and evolution of the environmental justice m]