PURITY AND POLLUTION: Racial degradation and environmental anxieties

Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 115-152

  Kosek, Jake ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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