Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability
byBruce E. Johansen is professor emeritus of communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska.
20200430
Praeger
Pages | 384 |
Topics | Alaska Natives: Swamped by Warming;Bridgeport, Connecticut: A Spreading Web of Toxins;Canadian Tar Sands: From Treaty Forest to Moonscape;Chester, Pennsylvania: Unwilling Capital of Hazmat;Farmworkers: Toxicity as an Occupational Hazard;Houston, Texas: Always Awaiting the Next Flood |
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From Flint, MI to Standing Rock, ND, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environment. This book provides a modern history of such environmental injustices in the U.S. and Canada.
From the 19th-century extermination of the buffalo in the American West, to Alaska's Project Chariot (a Cold War initiative that planned to use atomic bombs to blast out a harbor on Eskimo land), to the struggle for recovery and justice in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of how poor and minority people are affected by natural and manmade environmental crises.
Written for undergraduates as well as the general reader with an interest in social justice and environmental issues, this book traces the relationship between environmental discrimination, race, and class through a comprehensive case history of environmental injustices. Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability includes 50 such case studies that range from local to national to international crises.
- Provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of the far-reaching specter of environmental racism in the U.S. and Canada, using numerous case studies that extend across the U.S. and Canada from the 19th century into the present day
- Examines the confluence of climate change, natural resource conflicts, political and corporate corruption, and racism
- Reflects a regional arrangement to better highlight patterns and types of injustices as well as victims
- Is written by a prolific author and expert on environmental and Native American issues
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Table of Contents
Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability
Author(s): Johansen, Bruce;Contributors: Johansen, Bruce;Abstract:From Flint, MI to Standing Rock, ND, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environment. This book provides a modern history of such environmental injustices in the U.S. and Canada.
From the 19th-century extermination of the buffalo in the American West, to Alaska's Project Chariot (a Cold War initiative that planned to use atomic bombs to blast out a harbor on Eskimo land), to the struggle for recovery and justice in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of how poor and minority people are affected by natural and manmade environmental crises.
Written for undergraduates as well as the general reader with an interest in social justice and environmental issues, this book traces the relationship between environmental discrimination, race, and class through a comprehensive case history of environmental injustices. Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability includes 50 such case studies that range from local to national to international crises.
- Provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of the far-reaching specter of environmental racism in the U.S. and Canada, using numerous case studies that extend across the U.S. and Canada from the 19th century into the present day
- Examines the confluence of climate change, natural resource conflicts, political and corporate corruption, and racism
- Reflects a regional arrangement to better highlight patterns and types of injustices as well as victims
- Is written by a prolific author and expert on environmental and Native American issues
SortTitle: environmental racism in the united states and canada: seeking justice and sustainabilityAuthor Info:Bruce E. JohansenauthorBruce E. Johansen is professor emeritus of communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska.
eISBN-13: 9781440864032Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440864032.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440864025Imprint: PraegerPages: 384Publication Date: 20200430- Cover page a1
- Halftitle page i2
- Title page iii4
- Copyright page iv5
- Contents v6
- Preface ix10
- chapter one Background 112
- chapter two Unifying Themes 2940
- Introduction 2940
- Mining: Mother Earth or Mother Lode? 3041
- Lead, Lead Everywhere: Flint, Michigan’s Water Crisis in Context 3748
- The Political Economy of Lead Poisoning and Other Water Quality Issues 5061
- Canadian Tar Sands: From Treaty Forest to Moonscape 6273
- Pipelines and Protests 7384
- “Cowboys” vs. “Indians”: Racial Stereotyping and Agent Orange in Vietnam 7889
- Farmworkers: Toxicity as an Occupational Hazard 89100
- Extermination of the Buffalo as Environmental Warfare 103114
- Environmental Racism and the Demise of an Ice World 113124
- chapter three Cases: United States East 131142
- Introduction 131142
- Houston, Texas: Segregation, Sewage, and Environmental Racism 133144
- Anniston, Alabama: A Plague of PCBs 138149
- Dickson, Tennessee: Environmental Racism’s “Poster Child” 143154
- A 100 Percent Chance of Pig-manure Showers in North Carolina 147158
- Bridgeport, Connecticut: A Spreading Web of Toxins 154165
- Chester, Pennsylvania: Unwilling Capital of Hazmat 158169
- South Chicago: Life and Death in the “Toxic Doughnut” 162173
- Race, Class, and Toxicity at Love Canal 166177
- North Carolina: Protesting Unwelcome Toxic Dumps 172183
- Donald Trump, Hurricane Maria, and Puerto Rico 177188
- Triana, Alabama: Dumped On, Ceaselessly 184195
- Malathion and the Rosebud Sioux in Mission, South Dakota 187198
- Houston, Texas: Always Awaiting the Next Flood 190201
- Akwesasne: Land of the Toxic Turtles 195206
- The Toxics Plantation: Life and Death in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” 204215
- The Demographics of Death in New Orleans: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina 212223
- chapter four Cases: United States West 219230
- Introduction 219230
- Montana’s Gros Ventre and Assiniboine: Gold Mining and Cyanide Poisoning 222233
- The Mothers of East Los Angeles Stand Down a Toxic Incinerator—and More 227238
- Pueblo, Colorado: The Toxic Legacy of the “Pittsburgh of the West” 233244
- Richmond, California: The Greens vs. Big Oil 238249
- Alaska’s Pebble Mine: Corporate Gold vs. Natives’ Salmon 243254
- Alaska Natives: Swamped by Warming 249260
- The Point Hope Eskimos: An Atomic Harbor and a Nuclear Dump as a Neighbor 254265
- “The Most Bombed Nation on Earth” 260271
- Utah’s Goshute Asked to House Waste Uranium—but Were Denied 263274
- The Laguna Pueblo and Anaconda’s Jackpile Uranium Mine 267278
- The Navajos’ Nuclear Legacy 272283
- The Largest Uranium Spill in the United States 278289
- Hunting Grounds to Dumping Grounds 285296
- The Moapa Paiute: Good-Bye Toxic Ash: Solar In, Coal Power Out 289300
- chapter five Cases: Canada 295306
- Introduction 295306
- Grassy Narrows, Ontario: The Continuing Toxic Toll of Mercury 297308
- The Aamjiwnaang of Ontario: Immersed in a Toxic Bath 302313
- Dumping on Blacks in Africville, Nova Scotia 306317
- British Columbia: Native Canadians vs. Mining’s “New Prosperity” 311322
- The Crees: Hydro-Quebec’s Electric Dreams 317328
- The Lubicon Cree: Land Rights and Resource Exploitation 330341
- The Dene: Killed by the “Money Rock” 335346
- The Inuit: Mother’s Milk Is Toxic 339350
- Who Is Liable for Ruining a Culture? The Inuit Sue the United States of America 346357
- Selected Bibliography 353364
- Index 361372
- About the Author 371382