Packing Them In

by WASHINGTON, SYLVIA HOOD

• ISBN13: 9780739110294
• ISBN10: 0739110292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This important new book by Sylvia Washington adds a vital new dimension to our understanding of environmental history in the United States. Washington excavates and tells the stories of Chicago's poor, working class, and ethnic minority neighborhoods--such as Back of the Yards and Bronzeville--that suffered disproportionately negative environmental impacts and consequent pollution related health problems. This pioneering work will be essential reading not only for historians, but for urban planners, sociologists, citizen action groups and anyone interested in understanding the precursors to the contemporary environmental justice movement.

Table of Contents

Social Darwinism, scientific racism, and birth of the environmental leper	p. 17
An archaeology of the modern environmental justice movement	p. 45
Justice in the jungle : immigrants and environmental racism in the back of the yards, 1880-1930	p. 75
Engineering and environmental inequality : the rise and fall of the notorious "Bubbly Creek"	p. 100
Planning and environmental inequalities : race, place, and environmental health in Chicago	p. 129
"We fight blight" : block beautiful and the urban conservation movement in Chicago's Black Belt, 1915-1954	p. 158
Epilogue : raisins in the sun : postmodern environmental justice struggles in Chicago	p. 193
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