Waste: One Womans Fight Against Americas Dirty Secret (lib

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Nombre: Waste: One Womans Fight Against Americas Dirty Secret (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: The New Press

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The MacArthur grantwinning environmental justice activists riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for Americas most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020

Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur genius, grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place thats been called Bloody Lowndes because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today its Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowerss lifes worka 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 Americas dirty secret. In this powerful and moving book (Booklist), 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, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West.
In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevensons Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyardsnot only those of poor minorities.

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Praise for Waste:
Throughout her plainspoken account, Flowers exhibits a prodigious forbearance. The effect is wrenching, as if she had succeeded in Agees plan to tear out a piece of the very body of the Black Belt. In Waste she proffers, with humility and without rancor, the plate of excrement that has been served to those like Pam Rush all their lives. The reader must decide what to do with it.
The New York Review of Books

Flowers brings an invigorating sense of purpose to the page. Waste is written with warmth, grace and clarity. Its straightforward faith in the possibility of building a better world, from the ground up, is contagious.
New York Times Book Review

A useful primer on why America's treatment of raw sewage doesn't pass the smell test.
Kirkus Reviews
Flowers exposes the true injustice of the situation and how it can be remedied, from both sides of the political spectrum. This is a powerful and moving book that deserves wide readership.
Booklist

Mixing memoir, civil rights history, and polemic, this blunt litany by Flowers delivers a call to action for all concerned about sustainable solutions to the shamefully inadequate environmental infrastructure, policies, and practices in the United States.
Library Journal

A gripping, eye-opening story about the lack of access to basic sanitation in parts of the United States.
Smithsonian

This is a book about justice long overdue, and it' s also a book for our pregnant moment, as movements combatting racism, inequality, and climate change converge to win a radically transformed future.
Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case for the Green New Deal

Catherine Coleman Flowers's important new book shows us how ordinary people can stand up, fight back, and build a government and an economy that works for all of us. Together, we can and we must guarantee clean water and sanitation as a right for all.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

Catherine Flowers is a trailblazer in the environmental and climate justice movement, and her life story serves as an inspiration for activists, educators, and anyone who wants to use their voice to make a difference.
Former vice president Al Gore

Catherine Coleman Flowers's life story is a testament to the importance of sustained activism, a compassionate heart bound by justice, and a commitment to political clarity informed by the dark annals of history. If you care about environmental justice, racial justice, and class recko

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781620977132
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 1620977133
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: The New Press
Titulo del libro: Waste: One Womans Fight Against Americas Dirty Secret (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 224
ISBN-13: 9781620977132
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781620977132