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Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner

Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up
One community's fight against industrial contamination and environmental racism
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 African American families. This community, at one time surrounded by nine polluting industries, is struggling to make their voices heard and their community safe again.
Polluted Promises shows that even in the post-civil rights era, race and class are still key factors in determining the politics of pollution.

Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town

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Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up One community's fight against industrial contamination and... Read more

    Publisher: New York University Press
    Publication Date: 01/08/2005
    ISBN13: 9780814716588, 978-0814716588
    ISBN10: 081471658X

    Number of Pages: 275

    Non Fiction , Technology, Engineering & Agriculture , Education

    Description

    Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner

    Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up
    One community's fight against industrial contamination and environmental racism
    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 African American families. This community, at one time surrounded by nine polluting industries, is struggling to make their voices heard and their community safe again.
    Polluted Promises shows that even in the post-civil rights era, race and class are still key factors in determining the politics of pollution.

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