"This book makes explicit the racial, ethnic, and gendered forms of environmental injustice that culminate from the collective, intersecting, and multi-scaler 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"--
Thirsty for environmental justice -- In the service of white privilege -- Flint : the anvil of democracy -- Building the Karegnondi -- Foundation colonialism -- Emergency (as a paradigm of) management -- Waged war -- Environments of injustice -- The water is off -- Detroit water shutoffs -- Shutoff and shut-out -- We charge genocide.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
Mascarenhas, Michael, 1963- author.
Title
Toxic water, toxic system : environmental racism and Michigan's water war / Michael Mascarenhas ; [with We the People of Detroit].
Publisher
[Oakland, California] : University of California Press, [2024]
Online version: Mascarenhas, Michael, 1963- Toxic water, toxic system [Oakland, California] : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520975217 (DLC) 2023032336