Toxic debt : an environmental justice history of Detroit /
"'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...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
Civil rights and social justice. UNC Press law publications. |
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications |
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| Summary: | "'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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469665771 |