occupations and race

Tells the history of the corosive idea that whites are "clean" and minorities are "dirty," and the present day ideas about race and waste that have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes are managed.

Class and Race examines how African Americans, Native Americans, and other groups have grappled with class structures in American society, studying the ways in which racism has shaped those structures and continues to do so today.