Dumping in Dixie : race, class, and environmental quality /

Dumping in Dixie : race, class, and environmental quality / Robert D. Bullard.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Bullard, Robert D. (Robert Doyle), 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo : Westview Press, [2000]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Environmental policy > Southern States.
Waste disposal sites > Location > Southern States.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions.
Social justice.
Social surveys > Southern States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Environmental policy.
Race relations.
Social surveys.
Waste disposal sites > Location.
Southern States > Race relations.
Southern States.
Table of Contents:
  • Environmentalism and social justice
  • Race, class, and the politics of place
  • Dispute resolution and toxics : case studies
  • The environmental justice movement : survey results
  • Environmental racism revisited
  • Environmental justice as a working model
  • Action strategies for the twenty-first century.

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