Clean and White : : A History of Environmental Racism in the United States / / Carl A. Zimring.
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. Fro...
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Zimring, Carl A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Clean and White : A History of Environmental Racism in the United States / Carl A. Zimring. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Biopolitics of Waste -- Part I. Antebellum Roots -- 1. Thomas Jefferson’s Ideal -- 2. The Decay of the Old -- Part II. New Constructions -- 3. Searching for Order -- 4. “How Do You Make Them So Clean and White?” -- Part III. Material Consequences -- 5. Dirty Work, Dirty Workers -- 6. Waste and Space Reordered -- Part IV. Assimilation and Resistance -- 7. Out of Waste into Whiteness -- 8. “We Are Tired of Being at the Bottom” -- Conclusion: A Dirty History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society’s wastes have been managed. Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. In the wake of the civil war, as the nation encountered emancipation, mass immigration, and the growth of an urbanized society, Americans began to conflate the ideas of race and waste. Certain immigrant groups took on waste management labor, such as Jews and scrap metal recycling, fostering connections between the socially marginalized and refuse. Ethnic “purity” was tied to pure cleanliness, and hygiene became a central aspect of white identity. Carl A. Zimring here draws on historical evidence from statesmen, scholars, sanitarians, novelists, activists, advertisements, and the United States Census of Population to reveal changing constructions of environmental racism. The material consequences of these attitudes endured and expanded through the twentieth century, shaping waste management systems and environmental inequalities that endure into the twenty-first century. Today, the bigoted idea that non-whites are “dirty” remains deeply ingrained in the national psyche, continuing to shape social and environmental inequalities in the age of Obama. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Environmental justice United States. Hygiene Social aspects United States. Occupations and race. Racism United States History. Refuse and refuse disposal Social aspects United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110728989 print 9781479826940 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479827084.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479827084 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479827084/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Biopolitics of Waste -- Part I. Antebellum Roots -- 1. Thomas Jefferson’s Ideal -- 2. The Decay of the Old -- Part II. New Constructions -- 3. Searching for Order -- 4. “How Do You Make Them So Clean and White?” -- Part III. Material Consequences -- 5. Dirty Work, Dirty Workers -- 6. Waste and Space Reordered -- Part IV. Assimilation and Resistance -- 7. Out of Waste into Whiteness -- 8. “We Are Tired of Being at the Bottom” -- Conclusion: A Dirty History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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