| Descript |
xxxiv, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The Mexican American experience |
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Mexican American experience
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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Introduction : "La tierra es vida" -- Overview of environmental issues and the Mexican-origin people -- Overview of the book -- Notes -- 1. Principles of scientific ecology -- Succession to climax or accidental associations? -- Nature as ecosystem -- The web of life -- The land ethic -- Stability and change in ecosystems -- Critiques of cybernetic ecology -- Discussion questions -- Suggested readings -- Notes -- 2. Ecologies of chaos -- The ecology of disturbance -- Anthropogenesis : placing people in the environment -- Discussion questions -- Suggested readings -- Notes -- 3. Environmental history of mega-Mexico, El Sur -- Changing biological and cultural diversity of mega-Mexico -- Pre-contact civilizations -- The Spanish colonial ecological revolution -- Discussion questions -- Suggested readings -- Notes -- 4. Environmental history of mega-Mexico, El Norte -- Ecological worldviews -- Ecological revolutions in El Norte -- Biological diversity in El Norte -- Ancestral civilizations and environmental change -- First nations and the Mexican-origin people -- The Norteña/o Ecological Revolution, 1598--1848 -- The Industrial-Capitalist Ecological Revolution, 1848--1950 -- A century of precursors -- Concluding thoughts -- Discussion questions -- Suggested readings -- Notes -- 5. A Chicana/o critique of mainstream American environmentalism -- Natural resource conservation -- Wilderness preservation -- Professional environmentalism : the group of ten -- Rachel Carson and the roots of radical environmentalism -- Concluding thoughts -- Discussion questions -- Suggested readings -- Notes -- 6. A Chicana/o critique of radical American environmentalism -- Deep ecology -- Social ecology -- Ecofeminism -- Ecosocialism -- Bioregionalism -- The antitoxics movement -- The environmental justice movement (EJM) -- Concluding thoughts -- Discussion questions -- Suggested readings -- Notes -- 7. Ecological politics and the Mexican-origin people, 1980--2002 -- Nos Matan en Cosechas Tóxicas : farmworkers and the environment -- ¿Donde Están? : farmworker health care and housing -- Nos Matan en Malditas Fábricas : factory workers and the environment -- Se Robaron Nuestra tierra madre : land grants and the environment -- Sin Agua no hay vida : Acequia farmers and the environment -- Hacen Ruinas de Nuestras Vecindades : political ecology of the barrio -- Somos Humanos y No Lo Olvidan : rural colonias and the environment -- Concluding thoughts : is the Earth local? -- Discussion questions -- Suggested readings -- Notes -- Conclusion : Mexican-origin people and the future of environmentalism -- Future trends and emerging issues -- Final words -- Notes -- Glossary |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans -- Politics and government
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Environmental policy -- United States
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Political ecology -- United States
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| Govt. Doc# |
UA 5.2:M 39/15 |
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