EVST 350 Works of Toxic Resistance: Rachel Carson and Dolores Huerta

Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring, and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union, both campaigned against toxic exposures in the mid-20th-century United States and yet are rarely considered in tandem. This course puts the writings and activism of these two women in conversation, ranging through feminist, queer, and Latinx environmentalisms to build connections between environmental history and labor history. [H, GM1]

Instructor

Dimick