Fighting to breathe : race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore

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서명/저자사항	Fighting to breathe: race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore / Nicole Fabricant.
개인저자	Fabricant, Nicole, author.
발행사항	Oakland, California: University of California Press, [2023]
형태사항	229 p. ; 23 cm
총서사항	California series in public anthropology ;[vol 54]
ISBN	9780520379329 9780520379312
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Introduction -- Failed development in Baltimore's toxic periphery : a history -- Free your voice : an origin story -- Fighting the nation's largest trash-to-energy incinerator -- "Whose land? our land!" : land trusts as fair development -- Learn so we don't have to burn : zero waste is our future -- Conclusion -- Postscript : a letter of confession to the activist-scholar.
요약	"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 the proposed construction of an incinerator and to unequal land use practices, and initiated new waste management strategies. As a Baltimore resident and activist-scholar, Nicole Fabricant documents how young organizers came to envision, design, and create a more just and sustainable Baltimore"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Air --Pollution --Social aspects --Maryland --Baltimore. Youth movements --Maryland --Baltimore --21st century.
분류기호(DDC)	363.739
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