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Dumping in Dixie

Robert D. Bullard

1990165 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1990
first published
  • 1990Westview Press · 165 pages · ENGISBN 9780813379548
  • 1994Westview Press · 195 pages · ENGISBN 9780813319629
  • 2000Westview Press · 234 pages · ENGISBN 9780813367927

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.

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