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Environmental inequalities : class, race, and industrial pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980

Title: Environmental inequalities : class, race, and industrial pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 / Andrew Hurley.
Author: Hurley, Andrew, 1961-
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

xviii, 246 pages; 25 cm

Subjects

Gary (Ind.) > Race relations
Pollution > Social aspects > Indiana > Gary
Gary (Ind.) > Environmental conditions
Environmental policy > Social aspects > Indiana > Gary
Gary (Ind.) > Social conditions
NIMBY syndrome > Indiana > Gary
Social classes > Indiana > Gary

Note

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.).

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and index.

Contents

1. Class, Race, and the Shaping of the Urban Landscape -- 2. The Perils of Pollution in the Steel City, 1945-1950 -- 3. Opposition to Blind Progress: Middle-Class Environmentalism -- 4. Tired of Working in Pollution and Having It Follow Us Home: Working-Class Environmentalism -- 5. Rats, Roaches, and Smoke: African American Environmentalism -- 6. The Rise and Fall of an Environmental Coalition -- 7. The Social Geography of Pollution and the Politics of Sand -- Epilogue: Gary and Beyond.

ISBN

0807821748
0807845183 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

94017932

OCLC

30436478
ocm30436478

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Columbia University Libraries