Name: Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
Author: Karen Brodkin (Author)
ISBN: 9780813546070

Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles book cover

Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles

Author(s): Karen Brodkin (Author)

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Date: 5 Aug. 2009
Edition: None ed.
Language: English
Print length: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0813546079
ISBN-13: 9780813546070

Book Description

In the late 1990s, when California’s deregulation of the production and sale of electric power created massive energy shortages, a group of environmental justice activists blocked construction of a power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American neighborhoods. Why did they choose this battle? And how did the largely high school student activists come to prevail in the face of statewide political opinion?

Power Politics is a rich and readable study of a grassroots campaign where longtime labor and environmental allies found themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that pitted good jobs against good air. Karen Brodkin analyzes how those issues came to be opposed and in doing so unpacks the racial and class dynamics that shape Americans’ grasp of labor and environmental issues. Power Politics’ activists stood at the forefront of a movement that is building broad-based environmental coalitions and placing social justice at the heart of a new and robust vision.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Highly original in conception and scopeàBrodkin demonstrates her consummate skills as a researcher in excavating the cityàand does so with verve. –Rodolfo D. Torres “Professor of urban planning and Chicano studies, University of California, Irvin”

From the Back Cover

In the late 1990s, when California’s deregulation of the production and sale of electric power 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 dynamics that shape Americans’ grasp of labor and environmental issues.

About the Author

Karen Brodkin is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los Angeles and How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America (both Rutgers University Press).

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