Environmental Inequalities : Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 /

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By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America. Hurley's study focuses on the steel mill community of Gary, Indiana, a city that was sacrificed, like a thousa...

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Autor principal: Hurley, Andrew, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Social classes.
Race relations.
Pollution > Social aspects.
NIMBY syndrome.
Environmental policy > Social aspects.
Ecology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
Classes sociales > Indiana > Gary.
Pollution > Aspect social > Indiana > Gary.
Syndrome PDMC > Indiana > Gary.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Aspect social > Indiana > Gary.
Social classes > Indiana > Gary.
Pollution > Social aspects > Indiana > Gary.
NIMBY syndrome > Indiana > Gary.
Environmental policy > Social aspects > Indiana > Gary.
Indiana > Gary.
Gary (Ind.) > Social conditions.
Gary (Ind.) > Race relations.
Gary (Ind.) > Environmental conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Class, race, and the shaping of the urban landscape
  • The perils of pollution in the steel city, 1945-1950
  • Opposition to blind progress : middle-class environmentalism
  • Tired of working in pollution and having it follow us home : working-class environmentalism
  • Rats, roaches, and smoke : African American environmentalism
  • The rise and fall of an environmental coalition
  • The social geography of pollution and the politics of sand
  • Epilogue : Gary and beyond.

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