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Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
by Robert Bullard
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780813367927 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.
Synopsis:
"To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country's environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans"
Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index.
About the Author
Robert D. Bullard is a sociologist and long-time civil rights and environmental justice activist. He is professor of sociology at Clark Atlanta University, and also serves as director of the university’s Environmental Justice Resource Center.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780813367927
- Subtitle:
- Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, Third Edition
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Westview Press
- Location:
- Boulder, Colo :
- Subject:
- Afro-americans
- Subject:
- Environmental policy
- Subject:
- Race relations
- Subject:
- Southern states
- Subject:
- Social justice
- Subject:
- African Americans
- Subject:
- Ecology - Recycling
- Subject:
- Social surveys
- Subject:
- Waste disposal sites.
- Subject:
- Life Sciences - Ecology - Recycling
- Subject:
- Sociology - General
- Edition Number:
- 3
- Series Volume:
- 1422-3F
- Publication Date:
- March 2000
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 8.91x5.84x.57 in. .75 lbs.
