Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman FlowersCall Number: print book and ebook
ISBN: 9781620976098
Publication Date: 2020
Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “genius,” grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a 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 tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions across America.