Environmental injustices, political struggles : race, class, and the environment /

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Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Description:viii, 232 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3497769
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Other authors / contributors:Cuesta Camacho, David E. (David Enrique)
ISBN:0822322250 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822322420 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. A Framework for Analysis
  • The Environmental Justice Movement: A Political Framework
  • The Social Construction of Environmental Justice
  • II. Environmental Injustices
  • Race, Class, and Environmental Hazards
  • Environmental Racism in Southern Arizona? The Reality beneath the Rhetoric
  • Race for Water? Native Americans, Eurocentrism, and Western Water Policy
  • The Failure to Provide Basic Services to the Colonias of El Paso County: A Case of Environmental Racism?
  • III. Confronting Environmental Injustices
  • Environmental Justice and the Role of Indigenous Women Organizing Their Communities
  • Environmental Injustices and Traditional Environmental Organizations: Potential for Coalition Building
  • IV. Environmental Justice
  • Environmental Injustices: Examples from Ohio
  • Bishigendan Akii: Respect the Earth
  • Environmental Ethics as a Political Choice
  • Contributors
  • Index