Introduction to Environmental Politics: Race, Class, and Gender
NRE 335 / CAAS 322 / Envion 335
Credits: 4

This course will analyze the development of political action from the 1860s to the present. It will analyze the role of race, gender, and class in defining environmental issues and environmental action. It will explore the following questions. Why have people of color traditionally not participated in the mainstream environmental movement? What are the consequences to environmental hazards? Why did the mainstream environmental movement refrain from making toxic exposures a major part of their platforms for so long? How do minorities and the poor respond to toxics in their communities? What is the role of women and minorities in the traditional and newly emerging grassroots environmental groups? How does that emergence of large numbers of minority grassroots environmental groups change the dynamics in the environmental movement?