Checker, Melissa.

Polluted promises environmental racism and the search for justice in a Southern town / [electronic resource] : Melissa Checker. - New York : New York University Press, c2005. - xi, 275 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-259) and index.

You can run, but you can't Hyde -- Race-ing the environment -- Old heads: in between the tracks -- Strange fruit: from promised land to poisoned land -- Foot soldiers: long is the struggle, hard is the fight -- Staying on board: crossing murky waters -- No progress without struggle.


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Environmental justice--Georgia--Augusta.
Hazardous waste sites--Environmental aspects--Georgia--Augusta--Case studies.
Racism--United States.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Social justice--United States.


Electronic books.

GE235.G4 / C46 2005eb