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Power Politics : Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles /
In the late 1990s, 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 choos...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2009]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. South Gate Transitions
- 2. Environmental Justice and Communities for a Better Environment
- 3. Creating an Environmental Justice Campaign
- 4. Sunlaw's New Pollution Control Technology
- 5. The Perfect Storm: South Gate Politics and the Makings of a Pro-Plant Coalition
- 6. Finding Traction at South Gate High School
- 7. Going
- 8. Sudden Death
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index