Polluted Promises
Subtitle: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: August 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780814716588
Subjects: Black studies; Political activism; Pollution & threats to the environment; Science/Mathematics; General; Environmental Studies; Science; Georgia; Environmental Science; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations; United States; Augusta; Case studies; Environmental aspects; Environmental justice; Hazardous waste sites; Racism
First sentence: On the afternoon of his thirty-ninth birthday, Arthur Smith Jr., a tall, handsome African American man with graying hair and an easy smile, rushed into the library of the Clara E. Jenkins Elementary School.