Chicana/o communities have been fighting for civil rights for roughly 70 years. That fight has expanded to include environmental justice in the past two decades.

Hoping to spotlight the struggle, California State University, Northridge Chicana/o studies professors Mary Pardo, Rosa RiViera Furumoto and Stevie Ruiz continue to raise awareness to the issues they outlined in an article entitled “Environmental Justice in Chicana/o Communities” that appeared last year in the journal, Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities.

“Our goal was to bring awareness not only to the conditions within Chicana/o communities, but also how those conditions affect society as a collective,” Ruiz said. “These communities have been placed on the front lines of having to fight for environmental justice in addition to their battle for civil rights.”

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