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Toxic debt : an environmental justice history of Detroit / created by Josiah Rector.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 2022Description: 332 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469665757
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE235.M53 REC
Contents:
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
Summary: "'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"--
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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf GE235.M53 REC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 158809 Available BK146475

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"--

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