From the website: "Environmental Justice (EJ) scholarship in the United States emerged in tandem with social movement activism during the 1980s. Environmental Justice activism and scholarship responds to the spatial violence of racism and capitalism, which reproduce both uneven development across racially segregated communities and high levels of toxicity—physical and social—in communities of color. - This microsyllabus expands on traditional EJ scholarship frameworks, which typically center around empirical analyses of individual and cumulative distributions and impacts of a variety of environmental hazards."