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Toxic Communities

Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

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Toxic Communities

Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have found the OCypaths of least resistance, OCO there are many hazardous waste and toxic facilities in these communities, leading residents to experience health and wellness problems on top of the race and class discrimination most already experience. Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, a Toxic Communities aexamines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards. Renowned environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor focuses on the locations of hazardous facilities in low-income and minority communities and shows how they have been dumped on, contaminated and exposed. Drawing on an array of historical and contemporary case studies from across the country, Taylor explores controversies over racially-motivated decisions in zoning laws, eminent domain, government regulation (or lack thereof), and urban renewal. She provides a comprehensive overview of the debate over whether or not there is a link between environmental transgressions and discrimination, drawing a clear picture of the state of the environmental justice field today and where it is going. In doing so, she introduces new concepts and theories for understanding environmental racism that will be essential for environmental justice scholars. A fascinating landmark study, a Toxic Communities agreatly contributes to the study of race, the environment, and space in the contemporary United States.

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The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

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The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the movement's links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban elites—whose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native lands—the movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movement's competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways.

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Toxic Communities

Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

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The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

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The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

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The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

By: Dorceta E. Taylor

In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism. Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty; sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical analysis of the ways race, class, and gender shaped experiences and perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She describes the displacement of people of color for the production of natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity between garbage and communities of color in early America, the cozy relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the business community, and the continuous resistance against environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from marginal communities.

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The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

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Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

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Book's by Dorceta E. Taylor

Toxic Communities

Toxic Communities

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

Toxic Communities

Toxic Communities

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

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