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Power politics : environmental activism in south Los Angeles / Karen Brodkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brodkin, Karen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental justice--California--South Gate.
- Environmental justice.
- Student movements--California--South Gate.
- Student movements.
- Hispanic American high school students--Political activity--California--South Gate.
- Hispanic American high school students.
- South Gate (Calif.)--Environmental conditions.
- South Gate (Calif.).
- Sunlaw Energy Partners (Firm).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the late 1990's, when California's deregulation of the production and sale of electric power created massive energy shortages, a group of environmental justice activists blocked construction of a power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American neighborhoods. Why did they choose this battle? And how did the largely high school student activists come to prevail in the face of statewide political opinion? Power Politics is a rich and readable study of a grassroots campaign where longtime labor and environmental allies found themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that pitted good jobs against good air. Karen Brodkin analyzes how those issues came to be opposed and in doing so unpacks the racial and class dynamics that shape Americans' grasp of labor and environmental issues. Power Politics' activists stood at the forefront of a movement that is building broad-based environmental coalitions and placing social justice at the heart of a new and robust vision.
- Contents:
- South Gate transitions
- Environmental justice
- Creating an environmental justice campaign
- Sunlaw's new pollution control technology
- The perfect storm
- Finding traction at South Gate High School
- Going public
- Sudden death.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-54344-3
- 9786613855893
- 0-8135-4848-9
- OCLC:
- 593318047
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