This is a topic-guide for environmental justice and environmental racism. Inside it you will find brief introductions to the topic, helpful videos, suggested readings, and links to Iowa State University Library resources.
The act of farming changes the landscape and its people. Environmental justice and racism intersect with agriculture through labor exploitation, toxin and carcinogen exposure, access to food, and agricultural run-off and waste.
Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are essential to the U.S. agricultural economy--one of the most hazardous and least regulated industries in the United States.
Call Number: Online and on the Shelf at HD1527 C2 S32 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton's activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices.