Polluted Promises : Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town / Melissa Checker.
2005
GE235.G4 C46 2005
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Polluted Promises : Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town / Melissa Checker.
Author
Checker, Melissa, author.
ISBN
9780814772416
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814772416.001.0001 doi
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GE235.G4 C46 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.7/009758/64 363.700975864
Summary
Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winnerJulian Steward Award 2006 Runner-UpOver the past two decades, environmental racism has become the rallying cry for many communities as they discover the contaminations of toxic chemicals and industrial waste in their own backyards.Living next door to factories and industrial sites for years, the people in these communities often have record health problems and debilitating medical conditions. Melissa Checker tells the story of one such neighborhood, Hyde Park, in Augusta, Georgia, and the tenacious activism of its two hundred African American families. This community, at one time surrounded by nine polluting industries, is struggling to make their voices heard and their community safe again. Polluted Promises shows that even in the post-civil rights era, race and class are still key factors in determining the politics of pollution.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
One. You Can Run, but You Can't Hyde
Two. Race-ing the Environment
Three. Old Heads
Four. Strange Fruit
Five. Foot Soldiers
Six. Staying on Board
Seven. No Progress without Struggle
Appendix A: Methods
Appendix B: Getting Involved
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
One. You Can Run, but You Can't Hyde
Two. Race-ing the Environment
Three. Old Heads
Four. Strange Fruit
Five. Foot Soldiers
Six. Staying on Board
Seven. No Progress without Struggle
Appendix A: Methods
Appendix B: Getting Involved
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author