Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
By Unknown Author.
Description
Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene.When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have live...
ISBN(s)
1479826944, 9781479826940
