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Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan's Water War

Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan's Water War

Mascarenhas, Michael

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Technology & EngineeringEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0520343875
ISBN13: 9780520343870
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of America's third largest water system.

Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost--including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality.

Drawing from three years of ethnographic fieldwork in Flint and Detroit, this book amplifies the voices of marginalized communities, particularly African American women, whose perspectives and labor have been consistently overlooked. Toxic Water, Toxic System offers a fresh perspective on the ties between urban austerity policies, environmental harm, and the advancement of white supremacist agendas in predominantly Black and brown cities.

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