Book Reviews

Polluted Promises

by Melissa Checker
NYU Press, 2005

The author of this lively study calls it an ethnography. I hope that doesn't get it pigeonholed as a dry, academic treatise, because it is anything but that. It is a wonderfully written account of the struggles by the residents of Hyde Park, a neighborhood in Augusta, Georgia, to undo decades of what has recently come to be called environmental injustice or, and Ms. Checker does not shy from the expression, environmental racism. There is much to ponder in these pages.

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