No fear : a whistleblower's triumph over corruption and retaliation at the EPA /

Retracing the steps of the first civil rights and whistleblower act of the 21st century, this chronicle follows young, black, MIT-educated social scientist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, shortly after she landed her dream job at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The account illustrates how the aut...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coleman-Adebayo, Marsha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2011.
Temas:
Coleman-Adebayo, Marsha.
Coleman-Adebayo, Marsha
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency > Trials, litigation, etc.
United States. > Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002.
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency
Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (United States)
Political scientists > United States > Biography.
African American political scientists > United States > Biography.
Whistle blowing > United States.
Vanadium industry > Corrupt practices > South Africa.
Social responsibility of business.
Politologues > États-Unis > Biographies.
Politologues noirs américains > États-Unis > Biographies.
Alerte professionnelle > États-Unis.
Vanadium > Industrie > Pratiques déloyales > Afrique du Sud.
Entreprises > Responsabilité sociale.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African American political scientists
Employees
Political scientists
Social responsibility of business
Whistle blowing
South Africa
United States
Biographies
Trials, litigation, etc.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Back Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Welcome to Epa: Consider Yourself an Honorary White Man; 2 The Fourth Un World Conference on Women, Beijing: "Call Me Bella"; 3 Ultimatum to Public Service; 4 The Gore-Mbeki Commission: The Sound That Freedom Makes; 5 Alexandra: The Sacrifice Zone; 6 Who Are You Calling a Necklacer?; "Sleep"; 7 Why Waste Mit on People Like That?; 8 My Name Is Jacob Ngakane; 9 Back to Mit; 10 Breathing College Air; 11 Barnard College: The Path Sisters Take; 12 Mit: The Vortex of Minds and Hearts.
  • 13 Ethiopia: The Good Mother14 Retaliation at Epa; 15 Something Deeper Than Words; "Something Deeper Than Words"; 16 President of the United States: The Playbook; 17 Last Obstacle to the End Run; "Love Will Bring Me Forth"; 18 Yes, Clarice; "The Sacrifice Zone"; 19 The 1998 Trip to South Africa: My Tongue Is Green; "The Registry of Man"; 20 Death Threats and Missed Opportunities; 21 Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol M. Browner; 22 Betrayal Is Best Served Cold; 23 Discrimination or Disappointment?; "Waiting"; 24 The Verdict; 25 Can You Hear Me?; 26 Behind Closed Doors: The Browner-Naacp Meeting.
  • 27 Congressional Hearings: Intolerance at Epa"Today I'm Gray"; 28 A Call to History; 29 Journey to No Fear; 30 Al Sharpton: The X Factor; 31 Vanadium; 32 Breathing African Air; Postscript: Giants and Grasshoppers; "Like a Landscape from the Book of Time"; Afterword; Endnotes; Bibliography; Appendix: Legislative Stages to the No Fear Public Law; Index.

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