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Fighting to Breathe
Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore
- 266 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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 unequal land use practices and the proposed construction of an incinerator and instead initiated new waste management strategies. As a Baltimore resident and activist-scholar, Nicole Fabricant documents how these young organizers came to envision, design, and create a more just and sustainable Baltimore.
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Yes, you can access Fighting to Breathe by Nicole Fabricant in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Ciencias sociales & Planificación de ciudades y desarrollo urbano. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Characters
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Failed Development on Baltimore’s Toxic Periphery: A History
- 2. Free Your Voice: An Origin Story
- 3. Fighting the Nation’s Largest Trash-to-Energy Incinerator
- 4. “Whose Land? Our Land!”: Land Trusts as Fair Development
- 5. Compost! Learn So We Don’t Have to Burn: Zero Waste Is Our Future
- Conclusion
- Postscript: A Letter of Confession to the Activist Scholar
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Series List