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Power Politics
Price: $23.95
Subtitle:
Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
Author:
Karen Brodkin
Subject: Environmentalism,
Anthropology,
Ethnic Studies, Public
Policy, American
Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4608-7
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4607-0
Pages:
240 pages
Publication Date: September 2009
Praise for Power Politics
"Highly original in
conception and scope…Brodkin demonstrates her consummate skills as a
researcher in excavating the city…and does so with verve."
—Rodolfo D. Torres, Professor of urban planning and Chicano
studies, University of California, Irvine
Description:
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 blocked construction of a
power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American
neighborhoods. Why did they choose this battle? And how did the largely
high school student activists come to prevail in the face of statewide
political opinion?
Power Politics
is a rich and readable study of a grassroots campaign where longtime
labor and environmental allies found themselves on opposite sides of a
conflict that pitted good jobs against good air. Karen Brodkin analyzes
how those issues came to be opposed and in doing so unpacks the racial
and class dynamics that shape Americans’ grasp of labor and
environmental issues. Power Politics’
activists stood at the forefront of a movement that is building
broad-based environmental coalitions and placing social justice at the
heart of a new and robust vision.
About the Author:
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).
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