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