Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class and the Environment

by David E. Camacho

Book Overview

In the United States, few issues are more socially divisive than the location of hazardous waste facilities and other environmentally harmful enterprises. Do the negative impacts of such polluters fall disproportionately on African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans? Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles discusses how political, economic, social, and cultural factors contribute to local government officials'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322420
• ISBN13: 9780822322429
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"