Clean and White : : A History of Environmental Racism in the United States /

Clean and White : : A History of Environmental Racism in the United States / / Carl A. Zimring.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Zimring, Carl A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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