To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum, Washington, DC
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2024-02-01
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Hobson, Courtney C. “To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum, Washington, DC.” The Public Historian 46, no. 1 (February 1, 2024): 166–71. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2024.46.1.166.
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Growing up in the DC suburbs of Maryland in the 1990s and early 2000s, I frequently traveled into the city for work and for leisure. However, Anacostia was a neighborhood that I rarely visited or even thought about. Not only did it have a reputation as a less-than-desirable place to live, its location on the east side of the Anacostia River created a physical separation from the rest of the city as well. Historically, the river has been plagued by pollution thanks to untreated sewage entering the waterway. As a direct result, the health of those who live along the river is under constant threat.