| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 332 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Justice, power, and politics
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Justice, power, and politics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 not only a book about racism, capitalism, and the making of these environmental disasters. It is also a history of Detroit's environmental justice movement, which emerged from over a century of battles over public health in the city and involved radical auto workers, ecofeminists, and working-class women fighting for clean water. Linking the histories of urban political economy, the environment, and social movements, Toxic Debt lucidly narrates the story of debt, environmental disaster, and resistance in Detroit. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental justice -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Environmental justice. |
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Michigan -- Detroit. |
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Environmental racism -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Environmental racism. |
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Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
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Racism. |
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History. |
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Water quality -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Water quality. |
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Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions.
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HISTORY / United States / General. |
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Economic history. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Rector, Josiah. Toxic Debt. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2022 9781469665757 |
| ISBN |
1469665786 |
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9781469665788 (electronic book) |
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