Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice » (1st Edition)

Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at University of California, Davis, and the director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis's John Muir Institute for the Environment.

Examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization.

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger     1
What's Old Is New: Public Health and Planning as Historical Antecedents to New York City's Environmental Justice Activism     27
New York City Environmental Justice Campaigns: Stigma, Blight, and the Politics of Race and Pollution     49
Childhood Asthma in New York City: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Recognition     91
The Racial Geography of New York City Garbage: Local and Global Trash Politics     109
Power to the People? Deregulation and Environmental Justice Energy Activism     143
The Promise and the Peril or, Can Community-Based Environmental Justice Initiatives Reintegrate Planning and Public Health in the Urban Environment?     177
Conclusion: What We Can Learn from New York City Environmental Justice Activism     207
Notes     213
References     245
Index     269