Booker T. and the New Green Collar Workforce
An Earth-Based Reassessment of the Philosophy of Booker T. Washington
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9001984 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blaine D Pope (University of California, Los Angeles and Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, corresponding author), Ernie A Smith (Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California), Samuel J Shacks, Joyce Keith Hargrove |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 507-529 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021934710380204 |
| OpenAlex | W1990723208 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article suggests the need for a new “green” and “Earth-based” reassessment of the work of Booker Taliafaro Washington. Although it includes global and national perspectives, the African American community of South Central Los Angeles will provide the primary perspective. A general societal overreliance on petroleum-based chemicals has worked to the long-term environmental detriment of the African American community there. This article draws upon the works of four key environmental activists: Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, Robert Bullard, Van Jones, and Majora Carter. Working across a range of academic disciplines, the authors integrate contemporary “diagnostic” concepts of community health and environmental justice with older “prescriptive” concepts of employment in the primary trades and community self-reliance. The authors suggest that these old “Bookerite” concepts merit reconsideration, reframing, and re-messaging. The life’s work of Washington has therefore been recast here, in light of its newfound green relevance for the African American community, today
Cognitive reframing · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Political science · Relevance (law · Sociology · Workforce · American Environmental and Regional History · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |