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Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy

Autor Robert Gioielli
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2014
Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, social, and political conflicts. As deindustrialization, urban renewal, and suburbanization caused the decline of the urban environment, residents--primarily African Americans and working-class whites--organized to protect their families and communities from health threats and environmental destruction.
 
Gioielli examines various groups' activism in response to specific environmental problems caused by the urban crisis in each city. In doing so, he forms concrete connections between environmentalism, the African American freedom struggle, and various urban social movements such as highway protests in Baltimore and air pollution activism in Chicago. Eventually, the efforts of these activists paved the way for the emergence of a new movement-environmental justice.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781439904657
ISBN-10: 1439904650
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Seria Urban Life, Landscape and Policy


Notă biografică

Robert R. Gioielli is Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
 
 Introduction: The Uncounted Environmentalists
 1 The Breakdown of the City
 2 “Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities”: St. Louis and the Fight against Lead Poisoning
 3 “We Must Destroy You to Save You”: Baltimore's Freeway Revolt
 4 The Knee-in-the-Groin Approach: The Citizen's Action Program and Environmental Protest in Chicago
 5 “City Dwellers Are in the Greatest Danger”: Urban Environmentalism in the 1970s
 Conclusion: Missed Opportunities
 
 Appendix: Archival Abbreviations
 Notes
 Index