Narrative of environmental justice

Narrative of environmental justice

In this Assessment, you are going to write a coherent essay that demonstrates to me your mastery of content learned in class by articulating a historical narrative of the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States, in your own words. It will be similar to Luke & Cole’s and to my own on Latina/o Environmental Resisters in the Americas. It will be distinct as you select the events that you believe are important in narrating this history.

Your essay will do the following:

1.      It will integrate course readings, online zoom discussions, homework assignments, journal entries, and news on a local, national and global level.

2.      It will also include your personal definition of environmental justice (EJ) and environmental racism (ER). If you cite it from someone else, you will not get credit for the terms.

3.      Lastly, you will narrate the history of the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States, in a chronological sequence. In this part, you will choose a minimum of 5-6 events to frame your narrative which will include select people, places, legislation, etc., that you believe are critical considerations in narrating this story.

The “A” essay will link past environmental justice issues with pressings ones today.

Consider the following questions:

What is environmental justice? What are the histories, movements, ideas, and legal cases that encompass environmental justice? What is environmental racism? How is environmental racism manifested? What are the histories, policies, and ideologies that underpin ER?

Requirements:

·         Minimally, it will be 6-7 pages

·         Works Cited or reference page does not count toward total page count.

·         Formatting: Number your pages, Times New Roman font, size 12, 1 inch margins all around

·         Your in-text citations and reference page should be in MLA style (info available on CSULA Library website).

Grading Rubric is noted in this assignment's requirements

Assessment Guidelines

For an A (100-90): Shows clear familiarity with the text; supports claims with references to the text; answers the questions completely; its claims and argumentative structure moves from point to point effortlessly and elegantly; it has a clear and often original thesis and the argument of the paper supports the thesis; it engages the text with interest. Clearly contributes excellent work.

This essay must be written in us language by using MLA Citation Style and the answer should not be less than 7 pages.