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04782aam a2200397 i 4500 001 F2A47776800711ECA828FA2942ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220128010012 008 200307t20202020cau e b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019059502 020 $a 1440864020 020 $a 9781440864025 035 $a (OCoLC)1128193885 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCF $d GZO $d DLC $d OCLCO $d JAS $d TOH $d OCLCO $d JYJ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-cn--- $a n-cn--- 100 1 $a Johansen, Bruce E. $q (Bruce Elliott), $d 1950- $e author. 245 10 $a Environmental racism in the United States and Canada : $b seeking justice and sustainability / $c Bruce E. Johansen. 264 1 $a Santa Barbara, California : $b Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 370 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index. 505 0 $a Background -- Unifying themes -- Cases : United States East -- Cases : United States West -- Cases : Canada. 505 0 $a What is environmental justice? -- Types of environmental discrimination -- Perpetrators and victims -- Challenges and solutions -- Future outlook -- Mining: Mother Earth or mother lode? -- Lead, lead everywhere: Flint, Michigan's water crisis in context -- The political economy of lead poisoning and other water quality issues -- Canadian tar sands: from treaty forest to moonscape -- Pipelines and protests -- "Cowboys" vs. "Indians": racial stereotyping and agent orange in Vietnam -- Farmworkers: toxicity as an occupational hazard -- Extermination of the buffalo as environmental warfare -- Environmental racism and the demise of an ice world -- Houston, Texas: segregation, sewage, and environmental racism -- Anniston, Alabama: a plague of PCBs -- Dickson, Tennessee: environmental racism's "poster child" -- A 100 percent change of pig-manure showers in North Carolina -- Bridgeport, Connecticut: a spreading web of toxins -- Chester, Pennsylvania: unwilling capital of hazmat -- South Chicago: life and death in the "toxic doughnut" -- Race, class, and toxicity at Love Canal -- North Carolina: protesting unwelcome toxic dumps -- Donald Trump, Hurricane Maria, and Puerto Rico -- Triana, Alabama: dumped on, ceaselessly -- Malathion and the Rosebud Sioux in Mission, South Dakota -- Houston, Texas: always awaiting the next flood -- Akwesasne: land of the toxic turtles -- The toxics plantation: life and death in Louisiana's "cancer alley" -- The demographics of death in New Orleans: race, class, and Hurricane Katrina -- Montana's Gros Ventre and Assiniboine: gold mining and cyanide poisoning -- The mothers of East Los Angeles stand down a toxic incinerator, and more -- Pueblo, Colorado: the toxic legacy of the "Pittsburgh of the West" -- Richmond, California: the Greens vs. big oil -- Alaska's Pebble Mine: corporate gold vs. Natives' salmon -- Alaska Natives: swamped by warming -- The Point Hope Eskimos: an atomic harbor and a nuclear dump as a neighbor -- "The most bombed nation on Earth" -- Utah's Goshute asked to house waste uranium, but were denied -- The Laguna Pueblo and Anaconda's Jackpile uranium mine -- The Navajos' nuclear legacy -- The largest uranium spill in the United States -- Hunting grounds to dumping grounds -- The Moapa Paiute: good-bye toxic ash: solar in, coal power out -- Grassy Narrows, Ontario: the continuing toxic toll of mercury -- The Aamjiwnaang of Ontario: immersed in a toxic bath -- Dumping on Blacks in Africville, Nova Scotia -- British Columbia: Native Canadians vs. mining's "new prosperity" -- The Crees: Hydro-Quebec's electric dreams -- The Lubicon Cree: land rights and resource exploitation -- The Dene: killed by the "money rock" -- The Inuit: mother's milk is toxic -- Who is liable for ruining a culture?: the Inuit sue the United States of America. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Environmental justice $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Environmental justice $z Canada $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Racism $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Racism $z Canada $v Case studies. 651 0 $a United States $x Environmental conditions $y 21st century $v Case studies. 651 0 $a Canada $x Environmental conditions $y 21st century $v Case studies. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations $v Case studies. 651 0 $a Canada $x Race relations $v Case studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20220128010339.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2A47776800711ECA828FA2942ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search