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Under the Feet of Jesus , Helena Mar í a Viramontes

Under the Feet of Jesus , Helena Mar í a Viramontes. and the Literature of Environmental Justice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZcFq8ige8&feature=related&noredirect=1. What is Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism? .

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Under the Feet of Jesus , Helena Mar í a Viramontes

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  1. Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena MaríaViramontes and the Literature of Environmental Justice

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZcFq8ige8&feature=related&noredirect=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZcFq8ige8&feature=related&noredirect=1

  3. What is Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism? Environmental racism describes the disproportionate effects of pollution, toxicity, and other environmental harms on racial minorities (and often lower classes) while environmental justice is the name of the social movement that emerged in response to this problem.

  4. Environmental Racism • Landmark 1987 report: “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States”; follow-up study done in 2007: • Neighborhoods with hazardous waste facilities clustered close together have populations with 70% people of color. • Government and industry slower to respond to environmental disasters in the Third World and in economically disadvantaged regions in US.

  5. Environmental Justice • Emerged in the 1980s, out of earlier Civil Rights Movements of the 60s, and anti-toxics campaigns • Explores how environmental issues intersect with social justice issues of race, gender, and socio-economic class • Why are women, people of color, and the poor more often exposed to environmental hazards? • Often critical of the white, male, upper-class , first-world bias of traditional environmental movements

  6. What is Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism? • Environmental justice is a political/activist movement, a field of social sciences research, but also a growing field within the environmental humanities and environmental literature. • Reading literature (narrative, metaphor, genre, images, etc.) can help us see the roots of environmental racism in ways that looking at statistics or other research cannot.

  7. Helena MaríaViramontes (1954-) • Mexican-American, raised in East Los Angeles • Influenced by Chicano Rights Movement of 1960s • Trained as a fiction writer at UC Irvine, now an English professor at Cornell

  8. Helena MaríaViramontes • The Moths and Other Stories (1985), story collection • Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), a novel  • Their Dogs Came with Them (2007), most recent novel

  9. Helena MaríaViramontes • In the tradition of both muckraking and social realist U.S. literature …. Stowe, Sinclair, Steinbeck, Carson, Viramontes • In the tradition of Chicana/o literature.

  10. Helena MaríaViramontes “All serious writers have the responsibility to try and disrupt patterns of thought and behavior that damage the integrity of life. That’s why most writers do their best work while living on the fringes of a society. We can have a better view from there.”

  11. Wait, so what the heck is a novel anyway?

  12. For Thursday • Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus, Part 3 (pages 93-130) • Fourth blog post due by Wednesday evening at 8 pm.

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