Nadia Kim: Race and Class in the Air

Race and Class in the Air: Asian and Latina Immigrant Women on Environmental (In)Justice and Moral Citizenship
Nadia Kim, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
In our global cities today, immigrants of color are increasingly suffering hyper-pollution and alarming rates of asthma and cancer due to their residence near diesel-spewing shipping ports, freeways, and rail yards, all so that consumers can buy goods at big box stores that hail from China and other far-flung manufacturing nations. Immigrants and other people of color also reside near hazardous industries like oil refineries that prop up the aforementioned goods movement apparatus. Immigrant-led resistance movements against these environmental hazards have grown to be among the most dynamic in our global cities. Nadia Kim chronicles how Asian and Latina immigrant women activists for environmental justice in Los Angeles redefine racism and classism, and place one over the other.
This event is sponsored by the Asian American Research Center, part of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.
Co-sponsored by: Center for Race and Gender; Environmental Science, Policy & Management; Latinx Research Center
November 15, 2023