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Apr 26, 2024
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ESS 307 - Environmental Justice Literature4 credits
This course investigates the ways U.S. literary/media works have responded to environmental injustice, the unequal distribution of environmental hazards, resources, and power among race, gender, class and national groups. Since environmental injustice has a disproportionate impact on women, low-income populations, and people of color, this course examines the ways a wide range of multi-ethnic texts–from comic books to plays, music videos too novels–represent the environment in order to understand how the exploitation of nature is linked to the exploitation of people. We explore literary responses to urgent environmental justice issues like globalization, working conditions, food, factory, farming , water rights, health equity, toxic bodies, urban degradation, and the mining of natural resources. Throughout the course, we will consider the ways in which environmental injustices reflect and construct ideologies of racism, sexism, classism, and nationalism. Cross-list: ENGL 307 CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
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