Polluted promises : environmental racism and the search for justice in a Southern town [E-Book] / Melissa Checker.
Checker, Melissa.
New York : New York University Press, c2005
xi, 275 pages : illustrations, mapages
englisch
Environmental justice
Hazardous waste sites
Racism
African Americans
Social justice
Environmental aspects
Social conditions.
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Table of Contents:
  • You can run, but you can't Hyde
  • Race-ing the environment
  • Old heads: in between the tracks
  • Strange fruit: from promised land to poisoned land
  • Foot soldiers: long is the struggle, hard is the fight
  • Staying on board: crossing murky waters
  • No progress without struggle.