[E-BOOK] From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (Critical America)
♛ Luke W. Cole, Sheila R. Foster ♛
| #143175 in Books | NYU Press | 2001-11-01 | 2000-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.64 x6.00l,.76 | File Name: 0814715370 | 256 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Classic!|By RosesAreRed|Although over 10 years old, this book is and will remain an important contribution to the field of environmental justice. It captures, with analytic rigor and a sense of being grounded in reality (and not theory), the struggle for healthy environments in many poor and minority communities. There are many books in the field that are quite good but this|||"A fresh and lively treatise on the struggles of ordinary people who are making extraordinary contributions to the environmental and economic justice movement."-Robert D. Bullard,author of Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
When Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the phenomenon of environmental racism—the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards, particularly toxic waste dumps and polluting factories, on people of color and low-income communities—gained unprecedented recognition. Behind the President's signature, however, lies a remarkable tale of grassroots activism and political mobilization. Today, thousands of activists in hundr...
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