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Author Checker, Melissa

Title Polluted Promises : Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
Published New York : NYU Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; 1. You Can Run, but You Can't Hyde; 2. Race-ing the Environment; 3. Old Heads; In between the Tracks; 4. Strange Fruit; From Promised Land to Poisoned Land; 5. Foot Soldiers; Long Is the Struggle, Hard Is the Fight; 6. Staying on Board; Crossing Murky Waters; 7. No Progress without Struggle; Appendix A: Methods; Appendix B: Getting Involved; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up! 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 of its two hundred
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Subject Environmental justice -- Georgia -- Augusta
Hazardous waste sites -- Environmental aspects -- Georgia -- Augusta -- Case studies
Racism -- United States
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Social justice -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Discrimination & Race Relations.
African Americans -- Social conditions
Environmental justice
Hazardous waste sites -- Environmental aspects
Racism
Social justice
Georgia -- Augusta
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814772416
0814772412
081471658X
9780814716588