Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability

Author Bruce E. Johansen

Publisher Praeger

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Author

Bruce E. Johansen

Publisher

Praeger

Volume

Copyright

2020

ISBN13

9781440864032

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eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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Overview

This book discusses racism related to environmental policy in the United States and Canada, and how justice and sustainability are being sought.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Background.
1: What Is Environmental Justice?.
2: Types of Environmental Discrimination.
3: Perpetrators and Victims.
4: Challenges and Solutions.
5: Future Outlook.
Unifying Themes.
6: Mining: Mother Earth or Mother Lode?.
7: Lead, Lead Everywhere: Flint, Michigan's Water Crisis in Context.
8: The Political Economy of Lead Poisoning and Other Water Quality Issues.
9: Canadian Tar Sands: From Treaty Forest to Moonscape.
10: Pipelines and Protests.
11: “Cowboys” vs. “Indians”: Racial Stereotyping and Agent Orange in Vietnam.
12: Farmworkers: Toxicity as an Occupational Hazard.
13: Extermination of the Buffalo as Environmental Warfare.
14: Environmental Racism and the Demise of an Ice World.
Cases: United States East.
15: Houston, Texas: Segregation, Sewage, and Environmental Racism.
16: Anniston, Alabama: A Plague of PCBs.
17: Dickson, Tennessee: Environmental Racism's “Poster Child”.
18: A 100 Percent Chance of Pig-manure Showers in North Carolina.
19: Bridgeport, Connecticut: A Spreading Web of Toxins.
20: Chester, Pennsylvania: Unwilling Capital of Hazmat.
21: South Chicago: Life and Death in the “Toxic Doughnut”.
22: Race, Class, and Toxicity at Love Canal.
23: North Carolina: Protesting Unwelcome Toxic Dumps.
24: Donald Trump, Hurricane Maria, and Puerto Rico.
25: Triana, Alabama: Dumped On, Ceaselessly.
26: Malathion and the Rosebud Sioux in Mission, South Dakota.
27: Houston, Texas: Always Awaiting the Next Flood.
28: Akwesasne: Land of the Toxic Turtles.
29: The Toxics Plantation: Life and Death in Louisiana's “Cancer Alley”.
30: The Demographics of Death in New Orleans: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina.
Cases: United States West.
31: Montana's Gros Ventre and Assiniboine: Gold Mining and Cyanide Poisoning.
32: The Mothers of East Los Angeles St
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