Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis 0820344079, 9780820344072

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Introduction. The View from Stone Mountain
Chapter 1. Countrified City
Chapter 2. Civil Rights Citizenship and Its Environments
Chapter 3. Water Woes and Democratization
Chapter 4. Making Citizenship Environmental
Chapter 5. Jimmy Carter, Black Power, and the New Environmental State
Chapter 6. Sprawling, Skewing, and Greening
Chapter 7. Conservatism Remade, Environmentalism Eclipsed
Conclusion. Back to the Future?
Notes
Index
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