Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
Author:   Karen Brodkin
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9780813546087


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 August 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Karen Brodkin
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780813546087


ISBN 10:   0813546087
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. South Gate Transitions 2. Environmental Justice 3. Creating an Environmental Justice Campaign 4. Sunlaw's New Pollution Control Technology 5. The Perfect Storm 6. Finding Traction at South Gate High School 7. Going Public 8. Sudden Death

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"""Highly original in conception and scope... Brodkin demonstrates her consummate skills as a researcher in excavating the city... and does so with verve."" - Rodolfo D. Torres, professor of urban planning and Chicano studies, University of California, Irvine"""


Highly original in conception and scope... Brodkin demonstrates her consummate skills as a researcher in excavating the city... and does so with verve. - Rodolfo D. Torres, professor of urban planning and Chicano studies, University of California, Irvine


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Karen Brodkin is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los Angeles and How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America (both Rutgers University Press).

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