Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

by Carl Zimring

Book Overview

Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene

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 and those who are not white are dirty. From the age...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147987437X
• ISBN13: 9781479874378
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"