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BL
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948813
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b703183
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| Main Entry
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Brodkin, Karen
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| Title & Author
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Power politics : : environmental activism in south Los Angeles /\ Karen Brodkin.
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| Publication Statement
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New Brunswick, N.J. :: Rutgers University Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (ix, 242 pages)
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| ISBN
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0813548489
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: 9780813548487
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0813546079
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0813546087
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9780813546070
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9780813546087
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
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| Contents
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South Gate transitions -- Environmental justice -- Creating an environmental justice campaign -- Sunlaw's new pollution control technology -- The perfect storm -- Finding traction at South Gate High School -- Going public -- Sudden death.
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| Abstract
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In the late 1990s, when California's deregulation of the production and sale of electricpower created massive energy shortages a group of environmental justice activists, largely high school students, blocked construction of a power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American neighborhoods. Power Politics is a study of a grassroots campaign where longtime labor and environmental allies found themselves on opposite sides of a conflict pitting good jobs against good air. Karen Brodkin analyzes how those issues came to be opposed and unpacks the racial and class.
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Sunlaw Energy Partners (Firm)
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Sunlaw Energy Partners (Firm)
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Environmental justice-- California-- South Gate.
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Hispanic American high school students-- Political activity-- California-- South Gate.
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Student movements-- California-- South Gate.
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Ecology.
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Environmental justice.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Environmental Policy.
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SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- General.
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Student movements.
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South Gate (Calif.), Environmental conditions.
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California, South Gate.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.7/05250979494
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GE235.C25B76 2009eb
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