Karen Brodkin

Broschiertes Buch

Power Politics

Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles

Beschreibung

In the late 1990s, when California's deregulation of the production and sale of electric power created massive energy shortages a group of environmental justice activists, largely high school students, blocked construction of a power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American neighborhoods. Power Politics is a study of this grassroots campaign and the racial and class dynamics that shape Americans' grasp of labor and environmental issues.

Autor

Karen Brodkin is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los Angeles and How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America (both Rutgers University Press).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546087
• ISBN-10: 0813546087
• Artikelnr.: 26526773