Toxic debt : an environmental justice history of Detroit /
Rector, Josiah,
Toxic debt : an environmental justice history of Detroit / created by Josiah Rector. - 332 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm - Justice, power, and politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction
Part I. The making of the Motor City. The inequality of the burden
Bodies on the line
Part II. Regulating environmental inequality. Detroit reassembled
Shifting the burden
I do mind dying
Before Warren County
Part III. Toxic debt. Up in smoke
The dehydration of Detroit
Detroit futures
Epilogue
"'Toxic Debt' is a history of environmental racism and inequality. At the same time, it tells the history of Detroit's environmental justice movement, which emerged from over a century of battles over public health, industrial pollution, and water rights in the city. It involves powerful corporate elites, revolutionary auto workers, eco-feminists, and working-class women fighting for welfare rights and environmental justice. Linking the history of racial capitalism, environmental history, and social movement history, 'Toxic Debt' lucidly narrates the story of debt, environmental disaster, and resistance in Detroit"--
9781469665757
Environmental justice--Michigan--Detroit.
Environmental racism--Michigan--Detroit.
Racism--History.--Michigan--Detroit
Water quality--Michigan--Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
GE235.M53 REC
Toxic debt : an environmental justice history of Detroit / created by Josiah Rector. - 332 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm - Justice, power, and politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction
Part I. The making of the Motor City. The inequality of the burden
Bodies on the line
Part II. Regulating environmental inequality. Detroit reassembled
Shifting the burden
I do mind dying
Before Warren County
Part III. Toxic debt. Up in smoke
The dehydration of Detroit
Detroit futures
Epilogue
"'Toxic Debt' is a history of environmental racism and inequality. At the same time, it tells the history of Detroit's environmental justice movement, which emerged from over a century of battles over public health, industrial pollution, and water rights in the city. It involves powerful corporate elites, revolutionary auto workers, eco-feminists, and working-class women fighting for welfare rights and environmental justice. Linking the history of racial capitalism, environmental history, and social movement history, 'Toxic Debt' lucidly narrates the story of debt, environmental disaster, and resistance in Detroit"--
9781469665757
Environmental justice--Michigan--Detroit.
Environmental racism--Michigan--Detroit.
Racism--History.--Michigan--Detroit
Water quality--Michigan--Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
GE235.M53 REC