TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rector,Josiah
TI  - Toxic debt: an environmental justice history of Detroit 
T2  - Justice, power, and politics
SN  - 9781469665757
AV  - GE235.M53 REC 
PY  - 2022///
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Environmental justice
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Detroit
KW  - Environmental racism
KW  - Racism
KW  - History
KW  - Water quality
KW  - Detroit (Mich.)
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - 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
N2  - "'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"--
ER  -