Racial formation, environmental racism, and the emergence of Silicon Valley

Ethnicities

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 403-424

  Park, Lisa Sun Hee ^a   Pellow, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental justice; High tech industry; Immigrants; People of color minorities; Social inequality; Work and labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247674479     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796804045241     Document Type: Article

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