Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary ReaderIn the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence but these developments came at the cost of a host of new environmental problems. Unsurprisingly, a disproportionate number of them, such as pollution emitting factories, waste handling facilities, and big infrastructure projects, ended up in communities dominated by people of color. Constrained by long standing practices of