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Polluted promises : environmental racism and the search for justice in a Southern town / Melissa Checker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Checker, Melissa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental justice--Georgia--Augusta.
- Environmental justice.
- Hazardous waste sites--Environmental aspects--Georgia--Augusta--Case studies.
- Hazardous waste sites.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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 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.
- Contents:
- You can run, but you can't Hyde
- Race-ing the environment
- Old heads: in between the tracks
- Strange fruit: from promised land to poisoned land
- Foot soldiers: long is the struggle, hard is the fight
- Staying on board: crossing murky waters
- No progress without struggle.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-7241-2
- 1-4294-1385-9
- OCLC:
- 133165561
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