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Noxious New York: Race, Class and Garbage

The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue, at 103rd Street, New York, NY, United States

Historian Julie Sze examines the link between race, class, and garbage and explores how culturally and politically disenfranchised communities re-work long-standing conflations between polluted places and peoples.

The talk will address case studies around NYC garbage politics in the 1980s and 1990s, while also considering at previous historical moments and sites outside the city.

Free