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Author Kim, Nadia Y., author.

Title Refusing death : immigrant women and the fight for environmental justice in LA / Nadia Y. Kim.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : fighting for breath in the other LA -- Neoliberal embodied assault -- Emotions as power -- Every body matters -- "Our community has boundaries" : race and class matter -- Citizenship as gendered caregiving -- politics without the Politics -- The kids will save us -- Afterword : towards bioneglect.
Summary "The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and those "racist monuments" we call freeways. In this uncelebrated corner of "La La Land" through which most of America's goods transit, pollution is literally killing the residents. In response, a grassroots movement for environmental justice has grown, predominated by Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women who are transforming our political landscape-yet we know very little about these change makers. In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells their stories, finding that the women are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the country's nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization. The women are highly conscious of how these harms are an assault on their bodies and emotions, and their resulting reliance on a state they prefer to avoid and ignore. In spite of such challenges and contradictions, however, they have developed creative, unconventional, and loving ways to support and protect one another. They challenge the state's betrayal, demand respect, and, ultimately, refuse death"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Environmental justice -- California -- Los Angeles Region.
Environmental justice.
California -- Los Angeles Region.
Women immigrants -- Political activity -- California -- Los Angeles Region.
Women immigrants.
Political participation.
California.
Asian American women -- Political activity -- California -- Los Angeles Region.
Hispanic American women -- Political activity -- California -- Los Angeles Region.
Hispanic American women -- Political activity.
Hispanic American women.
Pollution -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles Region.
Pollution -- Social aspects.
Pollution.
Asian American women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kim, Nadia Y.. Refusing death Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. 9780804792660 (DLC) 2020051465
ISBN 9781503628182 electronic book
1503628183 electronic book
9780804792660 hardcover
9781503628175 paperback