LEADER 00000cam a2200721 i 4500 001 on1221019044 003 OCoLC 005 20220702022102.0 006 m o d 007 cr ||||||||||| 008 201112s2021 caua ob 001 0 eng 010 2020051466 020 9781503628182|qelectronic book 020 1503628183|qelectronic book 020 |z9780804792660|qhardcover 020 |z9781503628175|qpaperback 035 (OCoLC)1221019044 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dYDX|dN$T|dUKAHL|dYDX |dOCLCO|dCUV|dAAA|dDEGRU 042 pcc 043 n-us-ca 049 RIDW 050 04 GE235.C25|bK56 2021 082 00 363.70086/9120979494|223 090 GE235.C25|bK56 2021 100 1 Kim, Nadia Y.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n2007089070|eauthor. 245 10 Refusing death :|bimmigrant women and the fight for environmental justice in LA /|cNadia Y. Kim. 264 1 Stanford, California :|bStanford University Press,|c[2021] 300 1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 "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. 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