Power politics: Environmental activism in South Los Angeles

Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-242

  Brodkin, Karen ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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