The Greenlining of Staten Island: Environmental Preservation and Racial Segregation, 1945-1995

Author/Contributor(s):	Nugent, Patrick D
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	08/04/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Patrick D. Nugent shows that the political and environmental history of Staten Island is key to understanding how environmentalism has been used to reinforce racial discrimination not just in New York City but nationwide. Nugent demonstrates how postwar economic and political trajectories intersected in the 1960s with the rising consciousness of environmentalism to create a distinctive laboratory in Staten Island, where white communities and politicians heeded the rising call for the preservation of green space--but only as a tool to maintain racial segregation. As a result, environmentalists could point to some communities that had instrumentally embraced their objectives, though not their values"-- Provided by publisher.