Clean and white : a history of environmental racism in the United States / Carl A. Zimring.
Publisher's description: When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean an...
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The biopolitics of waste
- Thomas Jefferson's ideal
- The decay of the old
- Searching for order
- "How do you make them so clean and white?"
- Dirty work, dirty workers
- Waste and space reordered
- Out of waste into whiteness
- "We are tired of being at the bottom"
- Conclusion: A dirty history.