"We all have identity at the table": Negotiating difference in a Southern African American environmental justice network

Identities

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-194

  Checker, Melissa ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; Environmental justice; Race; Social movements; United States

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CLASS; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; RACIAL IDENTITY; RACISM; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17844363150     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10702890490451947     Document Type: Article

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