**This post is replacing a comment. Frankly, when I hear “environmentalism” and “green,” I automatically think of the (white, middle-class/upper-class) elite. Mainstream environmental justice has never been geared towards minority, low-income communities. Both Miriam Greenberg and Melissa Checker seem to agree and attempt at explaining as to why that it is. Firstly, Mother Nature may …
Throughout this semester, we have been learning about the “developments” of New York City and how the greed for New York City to become a greater, more successful city have come at the cost of its people, namely the working-class and minority populations. The developments have also come at the cost of the city’s survival …
In this post, the success of the Bloomberg administration will be measured in terms of how people of color and the working class have (not) benefited from his policies and projects. It will use some of the points discussed in New York Times article, “12 Years of Mayor Bloomberg” to assess this. One of the …
