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Polluted Promises
Melissa Checker
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Description for Polluted Promises
paperback. Over the years, 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. This book shows that even in the post-civil rights era, race and class are key factors in determining the politics of pollution. Num Pages: 275 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; JFSL3; JPW; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner
Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up
One community's fight against industrial contamination and environmental racism
Over 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814716588
SKU
V9780814716588
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99-50
About Melissa Checker
Melissa Checker is the Hagedorn Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town and co-editor of Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice.
Reviews for Polluted Promises
"Melissa Checker's absorbing story is a portrait of America. Polluted Promises showcases the complex links between toxic waste and race, and the hope-filled journeys of environmental activists who are wise, strong, and spiritual in their fight against toxic waste-and for their lives. Checker is doing public anthropology for social justice." -Carol Stack,author of All Our Kin "A very rich, organized, ... Read more