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Author Park, Lisa Sun-Hee, author.

Title The slums of Aspen : immigrants vs. the environment in America's Eden / Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Nation of newcomers : immigrant history as American history
Nation of newcomers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: environmental privilege in the Rocky Mountains -- The logic of Aspen -- The ultimate elite retreat -- Living in someone else's paradise -- Anti-immigrant fervor and the environmental movement -- Advocacy and social justice workers -- Conclusion: from dreams of privilege to visions of justice.
Summary Environmentalism usually calls to mind images of peace and serenity, a oneness with nature, and a shared sense of responsibility. But one town in Colorado, under the guise of environmental protection, passed a resolution limiting immigration, bolstering the privilege of the wealthy and scapegoating Latin American newcomers for the area's current and future ecological problems. This might have escaped attention, save for the fact that this wasn't some rinky-dink backwater. It was Aspen, Colorado, playground of the rich and famous and the West's most elite ski town. Tracking the lives of immigra.
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Subject Aspen (Colo.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Emigration and immigration -- Environmental aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Environmental aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Environmental policy -- Colorado -- Aspen.
Environmental policy.
Colorado -- Aspen.
Environmentalism -- Political aspects -- Colorado -- Aspen.
Environmentalism -- Political aspects.
Environmentalism.
Aspen (Colo.) -- Race relations.
Immigrants -- Colorado -- Aspen -- Social conditions.
Immigrants.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Pellow, David N., 1969- author.
Other Form: Print version: Park, Lisa Sun-Hee. Slums of Aspen. New York : New York University Press, ©2011 9780814768037 (DLC) 2011017988 (OCoLC)723142056
ISBN 9780814768044 (electronic book)
0814768040 (electronic book)
9780814768655 (electronic book)
0814768652 (electronic book)
9780814768037
0814768032