Catherine Coleman Flowers

Waste

One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret

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Produktbeschreibung

The MacArthur grantâ¿winning environmental justice activistâ¿s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for Americaâ¿s most vulnerableA Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur âgenius,â? grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place thatâ¿s been called âBloody Lowndesâ? because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today itâ¿s Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowersâ¿s lifeâ¿s workâ¿a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this Americaâ¿s dirty secret. In this âpowerful and moving bookâ? (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevensonâ¿s Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyardsâ¿not only those of poor minorities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 217mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781620977132
• ISBN-10: 1620977133
• Artikelnr.: 62229102

Autorenporträt

Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and since 2008 has been the rural development manager at the Race and Poverty Initiative of the Equal Justice Initiative. In 2020, Flowers was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Montgomery, Alabama.