Toxic debt an environmental justice history of Detroit /
"From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced out sized environmental risks for poor and working-class Detroiters, made all the worse for African Americans by housing and job discrimination. Then as the auto industry abandon...
| Main Author: | Rector, Josiah, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Physical Description: |
332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Justice, power, and politics.
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Table of 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.