Environmental Racism: Inequality in a Toxic World

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 147-164

  Pellow, David Naguib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental racism; Inequality; Natural resources; Theories of race; Toxic world

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250723468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996973.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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