Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader
(Part of the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics Series)
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In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence--but 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 America's environmental burdens.
This reader collects a wide range of primary source documrites eloquently and convincingly about the development of nutrition sci-ence and activism in Republican and wartime China that led many to regard the humble soybean as a foundational remedy to China's problems.
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