Sylvia Hood Washington\'s Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of Environmental Racism in Chicago, and offers an innovative historical explanation for how this social ill developed in nineteenth and twentieth century America.
Drawing from Michel Foucault\'s concept of power/knowledge and from theories of racial formation, Washington also demonstrates how the process through which some European immigrant groups were reclassified from non-.
Sylvia Hood Washington\'s Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of Environmental Racism in Chicago, and offers an innovative historical explanation for how this social ill developed in nineteenth and twentieth century America