Dumping in Dixie
Subtitle: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
Edition: 3 Sub edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780813367927
Subjects: Black studies; Human rights; Waste management; Southern States; Location; Black American Sociology; Social Science; Science; Sociology; USA; Life Sciences - Ecology - Recycling; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Waste disposal sites; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African Americans; Environmental Policy; Social conditions
First sentence: The environmental movement in the United States emerged with agendas that focused on such areas as wilderness and wildlife preservation, resource conservation, pollution abatement, and population control.
Description: To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country's environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.