Polluted Promises : : Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town / / Melissa Checker.
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 ne...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Language: | English |
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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