Clean and White : a History of Environmental Racism in the United States.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 2015Description: x, 275 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781479826940
- 1479826944
- 9781479874378
- 147987437X
- Environmental racism -- United States -- History
- Environmental justice -- United States
- Hygiene -- Social aspects -- United States
- Racism -- United States -- History
- Occupations and race
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- United States
- Racism
- Systemic Racism
- Environmental Justice
- Social Determinants of Health
- Professions et race
- Environmental racism
- Environmental justice
- Hygiene -- Social aspects
- Occupations and race
- Racism
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects
- United States
- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- 304.208900973 23
- GE230 .Z56 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The biopolitics of waste -- pt. I. Antebellum roots : Thomas Jefferson's ideal ; The decay of the old -- pt. II. New constructions : Searching for order ; "How do you make them so clean and white?" -- pt. III. Material consequences : Dirty work, dirty workers ; Waste and space reordered -- pt. IV. Assimilation and resistance : Out of waste into whiteness ; "We are tired of being at the bottom" -- Conclusion: A dirty history.
From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race-- whites are "clean" and non-whites are "dirty"-- have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have been managed. Zimring draws on historical evidence from statesmen, scholars, sanitarians, novelists, activists, advertisements, and the United States Census of Population to reveal changing constructions of environmental racism, focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. The bigoted idea that non-whites are "dirty" remains deeply ingrained in the national psyche, continuing to shape social and environmental inequalities.