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_bEnglish
_erda
_cMSULIB
050 0 0 _aGE235.M53 REC
100 1 _aRector, Josiah,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aToxic debt :
_ban environmental justice history of Detroit /
_ccreated by Josiah Rector.
264 1 _bUniversity of North Carolina Press,
_c2022.
300 _a332 pages ;
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aJustice, power, and politics
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a 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
520 _a"'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"--
650 0 _aEnvironmental justice
_zMichigan
_zDetroit.
650 0 _aEnvironmental racism
_zMichigan
_zDetroit.
650 0 _aRacism
_zMichigan
_zDetroit
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWater quality
_zMichigan
_zDetroit.
651 0 _aDetroit (Mich.)
_xEconomic conditions.
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