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Book Review: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice

Book Review: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice Book Reviews UNDRESSING DURBAN, edited by Rob Pattman and Sultan Khan. Durban, South Africa: Madiba Publishers, 2007. 499 pp. ISBN: 0-947445968-4. Reviewed by Daniel Schensul Brown University Undressing Durban emerged from its editors’ efforts to move conference participants at the 2006 International Sociology Association meetings in Durban beyond the standard and superficial introduction many visitors are provided to the city: tourism, on the one hand, and fear, on the other. This volume, which began as a handout at the conference, organizes into 16 sections 54 short essays on life in Durban, written by faculty and students in the social sciences at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN). In an excellent introduction, Pattman and Khan make the case for such a compendium, both as a more accurate introduction to Durban and as a response to the climate of fear that encompassed the ISA meetings after some participants were mugged. A series of personal narratives of life in Durban introduce the first sections of the book. These narratives describe how their authors struggle to fit themselves into the racial regimes that, sixteen years after the end of formal Apartheid laws, still characterize identity and interaction in Durban: from foreign students forced http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Book Review: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice

City and Community , Volume 7 (2): 1 – Jun 1, 2008

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SAGE
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© 2008 American Sociological Association
ISSN
1535-6841
eISSN
1540-6040
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6040.2008.00252_4.x
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Book Reviews UNDRESSING DURBAN, edited by Rob Pattman and Sultan Khan. Durban, South Africa: Madiba Publishers, 2007. 499 pp. ISBN: 0-947445968-4. Reviewed by Daniel Schensul Brown University Undressing Durban emerged from its editors’ efforts to move conference participants at the 2006 International Sociology Association meetings in Durban beyond the standard and superficial introduction many visitors are provided to the city: tourism, on the one hand, and fear, on the other. This volume, which began as a handout at the conference, organizes into 16 sections 54 short essays on life in Durban, written by faculty and students in the social sciences at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN). In an excellent introduction, Pattman and Khan make the case for such a compendium, both as a more accurate introduction to Durban and as a response to the climate of fear that encompassed the ISA meetings after some participants were mugged. A series of personal narratives of life in Durban introduce the first sections of the book. These narratives describe how their authors struggle to fit themselves into the racial regimes that, sixteen years after the end of formal Apartheid laws, still characterize identity and interaction in Durban: from foreign students forced

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Published: Jun 1, 2008

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