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Packing them in : an archaeology of environmental racism in Chicago, 1865-1954

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Packing them in : an archaeology of environmental racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 / Sylvia Hood Washington.
Author
Washington, Sylvia Hood, 1959-
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, c2005.

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x, 215 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Social Darwinism, scientific racism, and birth of the environmental leper -- An archaeology of the modern environmental justice movement -- Justice in the jungle: immigrants and environmental racism in the back of the yards, 1880-1930 -- Engineering and environmental inequality: the rise and fall of the notorious "bubbly creek" -- Planning and environmental inequalities: race, place, and environmental health in Chicago -- "We fight blight": block beautiful and the Urban Conservation Movement in Chicago's Black Belt, 1915-1954 -- Epilogue: raisins in the sun: postmodern environmental justice struggles in Chicago.
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Sc E 05-683
ISBN
  • 0739105728 (alk. paper)
  • 0739110292 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004017904
OCLC
56107808
Author
Washington, Sylvia Hood, 1959-
Title
Packing them in : an archaeology of environmental racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 / Sylvia Hood Washington.
Imprint
Lanham : Lexington Books, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Sc E 05-683
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