Title: Packing them in : an archaeology of environmental racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 /
Authors: Washington, Sylvia Hood, 1959-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Environmental policy Illinois Chicago History.; Racism Illinois Chicago History.; Minorities Illinois Chicago Social conditions.; Ethnic neighborhoods Illinois Chicago History.; Marginality, Social Illinois Chicago History.; Environmental justice Illinois Chicago.; Chicago (Ill.) Race relations.; Chicago (Ill.) Ethnic relations.; Chicago (Ill.) Environmental conditions.
Contents: Social Darwinism, scientific racism, and birth of the environmental leper -- An archaeology of the modern environmental justice movement -- Justice in the jungle: immigrants and environmental racism in the back of the yards, 1880-1930 -- Engineering and environmental inequality: the rise and fall of the notorious "bubbly creek" -- Planning and environmental inequalities: race, place, and environmental health in Chicago -- "We fight blight": block beautiful and the Urban Conservation Movement in Chicago's Black Belt, 1915-1954 -- Epilogue: raisins in the sun: postmodern environmental justice struggles in Chicago.