From the Ground Up : : Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement / / Sheila R. Foster, Luke W. Cole.
A critical look at the movement for environmental justiceWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the phenomenon of environmental racism—the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards, particularly toxic waste dumps and polluting factories, on people of col...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2000 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical America ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE. A History of the Environmental Justice Movement
- TWO. The Political Economy of Environmental Racism
- THREE. Environmental Racism
- FOUR. Buttonwillow
- FIVE. Processes of Struggle
- SIX. In Defense of Mother Earth
- SEVEN. Transformative Politics
- APPENDIX. An Annotated Bibliography of Studies and Articles That Document and Describe the Disproportionate Impact of Environmental Hazards by Race and Income
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS