Waste

One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Author: Catherine Coleman Flowers
ISBN: 9781620976081

The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 MacArthur “genius” Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America's dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia

Publisher: The New Press
Publish Date: 2020-11-17

Subjects: Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Political Science / Civil Rights, Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development, Law / Environmental, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Environment)