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Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954

Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954

Washington, Sylvia Hood

Paperback

AnthropologyBlack American StudiesGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $20.99

ISBN10: 1532026153
ISBN13: 9781532026157
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Jun 23 2017
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Sylvia Hood Washington's Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chicago, and offers an innovative historical explanation for how this social ill developed in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Drawing from Michel Foucault's concept of power/knowledge and from theories of racial formation, Washington also demonstrates how the process through which some European immigrant groups were reclassified from non-white to white over time, allowed them to move out of spaces where they faced environmental injustice into spaces of environmental privilege. This argument represents a significant contribution to environmental justice studies and suggests a comparative and relational ethnic studies approach to future treatments of the subject. Packing Them In is a path breaking book and a welcome addition to the fields of environmental history and environmental justice studies.

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