Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town

by Melissa Checker

Book Overview

Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner

Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up

One community's fight against industrial contamination and environmental racism

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081471658X
• ISBN13: 9780814716588
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"