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Book Review, Lakshman D. Guruswamy
Uproar At Dancing Rabbit Creek: Battling Over Race, Class & The Environment, Colin Crawford
Uproar At Dancing Rabbit Creek: Battling Over Race, Class & The Environment, Colin Crawford
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For the first five years of the 1990's, Noxubee County, Mississippi experienced a deeply divisive battle over the proposed siting there of one of the nation's biggest toxic waste dump and incineration facilities. Noxubee County, which is nearly 70% African-American, is also desperately poor. The fight over the proposed waste facility was in part a question of jobs versus environmental protection yet, as the selection below suggests, the waste fight was also influenced by long-standing animosities and social divisions-factors that, in my view, have been insufficiently appreciated by environmental justice activists and environmental lawyers alike.