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Fighting to Breathe - Nicole Fabricant

Fighting to Breathe

Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore
Buch | Softcover
266 Seiten
2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37932-9 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which can lead to premature death. Fighting to Breathe follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality in their city. For more than a decade, student organizers stood up to unequal land use practices and the proposed construction of an incinerator and instead initiated new waste management strategies. As a Baltimore resident and activist-scholar, Nicole Fabricant documents how these young organizers came to envision, design, and create a more just and sustainable Baltimore.

Nicole Fabricant is Professor of Anthropology at Towson University in Maryland. She is the author of Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land and is co–executive editor of NACLA Report on the Americas.

Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Characters
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Failed Development on Baltimore’s Toxic Periphery: A History
2. Free Your Voice: An Origin Story
3. Fighting the Nation’s Largest Trash-to-Energy Incinerator
4. “Whose Land? Our Land!”: Land Trusts as Fair Development
5. Compost! Learn So We Don’t Have to Burn: Zero Waste Is Our Future
Conclusion

Postscript: A Letter of Confession to the Activist Scholar
Notes
References
Index
 

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie California Series in Public Anthropology ; 54
Zusatzinfo 14 b-w photographs, 3 maps
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-520-37932-2 / 0520379322
ISBN-13 978-0-520-37932-9 / 9780520379329
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