Mexican Americans and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican Americans and the Environment write by Devon Gerardo Pe–a. This book was released on 2005. Mexican Americans and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of lifeÑactivists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many othersÑwho provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norte–o land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Devon Pe–a contrasts tenets of radical environmentalism with the ecological beliefs and grassroots struggles of Mexican-origin people, then shows how contemporary environmental justice struggles in Mexican American communities have challenged dominant concepts of environmentalism. Mexican Americans and the Environment is a didactically sound text that introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as it tells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete without taking into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it clearly shows students that ecology is more than nature study but embraces social issues of critical importance to their own lives.
Writing the Goodlife
Writing the Goodlife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Goodlife write by Priscilla Solis Ybarra. This book was released on 2016-05-12. Writing the Goodlife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Western Literature Association’s 2017 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies Mexican American literature brings a much-needed approach to the increasingly urgent challenges of climate change and environmental injustice. Although current environmental studies work to develop new concepts, Writing the Goodlife looks to long-established traditions of thought that have existed in Mexican American literary history for the past century and a half. During that time period, Mexican American writing consistently shifts the focus from the environmentally destructive settler values of individualism, domination, and excess toward the more beneficial refrains of community, non-possessiveness, and humility. The decolonial approaches found in these writings provide rich examples of mutually respectful relations between humans and nature, an approach that Priscilla Solis Ybarra calls “goodlife” writing. Goodlife writing has existed for at least the past century, Ybarra contends, but Chicana/o literary history’s emphasis on justice and civil rights eclipsed this tradition and hidden it from the general public’s view. Likewise, in ecocriticism, the voices of people of color most often appear in deliberations about environmental justice. The quiet power of goodlife writing certainly challenges injustice, to be sure, but it also brings to light the decolonial environmentalism heretofore obscured in both Chicana/o literary history and environmental literary studies. Ybarra’s book takes on two of today’s most discussed topics—the worsening environmental crisis and the rising Latino population in the United States—and puts them in literary-historical context from the U.S.-Mexico War up to today’s controversial policies regarding climate change, immigration, and ethnic studies. This book uncovers 150 years’ worth of Mexican American and Chicana/o knowledge and practices that inspire hope in the face of some of today’s biggest challenges.
Writing the Goodlife
Writing the Goodlife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Goodlife write by Priscilla Solis Ybarra. This book was released on 2016-03-24. Writing the Goodlife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher.
Environment and Development in Mexico
Environment and Development in Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environment and Development in Mexico write by Jan Gilbreath Rich. This book was released on 2003. Environment and Development in Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Mexican-American Value System in an Urban Environment
The Mexican-American Value System in an Urban Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mexican-American Value System in an Urban Environment write by Kern Ewing. This book was released on 1970. The Mexican-American Value System in an Urban Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
