| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 332 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Justice, power, and politics |
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Justice, power, and politics.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2022) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental justice -- Michigan -- Detroit
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Environmental racism -- Michigan -- Detroit
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Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History
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Water quality -- Michigan -- Detroit
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HISTORY / United States / General
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Economic history
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Environmental justice
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Environmental racism
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Racism
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Water quality
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| SUBJECT |
Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Michigan -- Detroit
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1469665786 |
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9781469665788 |
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