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

Englisch

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

©2023

xxviii, 229 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Fabricant, Nicole: Fighting to breathe. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

978-0-520-37931-2 cloth

978-0-520-37932-9 paperback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-520-97662-7 (Fernzugriff) epub

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.

*USA / Luftverschmutzung / Chemische Industrie / Atemwegskrankheit / Jugendprotest

*Air -- Pollution -- Social aspects -- Maryland -- Baltimore ; Youth movements -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- 21st century

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: TD883.5.M32

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 363.739/2097526

"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"--

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