Uncertain exposures and the privilege of imperception: activist scientists and race at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
This paper locates the EPA national headquarters within the racialized local geography of southwest Washington, D.C. By focusing on the formation of a scientist union and the union's struggle to make visible an episode of chemical exposure in its own offices, the paper connects the work of racialized privilege with the difficulty of proving chemical exposures in the 1980s.
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Michelle
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History Department and Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies, 100 St. George St., Rm. 2074, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3. michelle.murphy@utoronto.ca
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