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From the Ground Up Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement

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ISBN-10: 0814715370

ISBN-13: 9780814715376

Edition: 2000

Authors: Luke W. Cole, Sheila R. Foster

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They assess the effectiveness of the organizing tactics employed, casting particular scrutiny on the courts as agents of social change...The authors have presented concrete examples, all the while making clear that there are no road maps for successful organizing.-New York Law Journal"This is an important and unusual book.It is an academic book on an important issue-the environmental justice movement-that is timely and relevant."-Argumentation and AdvocacyWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the phenomenon of environmental racism--the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards, particularly toxic waste dumps and polluting factories, on people…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440

Luke Cole is Director of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation's Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment.

Sheila Foster is Associate Professor at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden.

Acknowledgments
Preface: We Speak for Ourselves: The Struggle of Kettleman City
Introduction
A History of the Environmental Justice Movement
The Political Economy of Environmental Racism: Chester Residents Concerned for Quality of Life
Environmental Racism: Beyond the Distributive Paradigm
Buttonwillow: Resistance and Disillusion in Rural California
Processes of Struggle: Grassroots Resistance and the Structure of Environmental Decision Making
In Defense of Mother Earth: The Indigenous Environmental Network
Transformative Politics
Appendix
Notes
Index
About the Authors