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ANT 270 - Environmental Justice Movements in the United States

Examines how poor and racialized communities have responded to the incidence, causes, and effects of environmental racism and injustice.  Special attention will be given to how critiques offered by these communities challenge the knowledge and procedural forms of justice embedded in environmental policy and democracy in the United States.  Case studies will be drawn from readings on African-American, European-Americans, Chicano and Latino Americans, and Native Americans.

General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives

Course Typically Offered: Variable

Credits: 3