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Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
Ist Teil von
American Anthropologist, 2007, Vol.109 (1), p.206-207
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: American Anthropological Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley-Blackwell Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The siting of a toxic dump near African American communities is an example of this racism, but so is the fact that African Americans, prejudiced in employment opportunities, may only afford homes in polluted neighborhoods. For people who are first- or secondgeneration homeowners, for whom home ownership signaled an escape from sharecropping and a chance to right a history of racial subordination, the insult of toxic contamination takes on specific connotations. Assigned to students interested in urbanism, science and technology studies, race relations in the United States, environment, or social movements, the book is sure to spark thoughtful conversation.