There's something in the water : environmental racism in Indigenous and Black communities Cover Image

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There's something in the water : environmental racism in Indigenous and Black communities / Ingrid R.G. Waldron.

Waldron, Ingrid, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781773630571 (softcover)
ISBN: 1773630571 (softcover)
Physical Description: x, 173 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Halifax ; Fernwood Publishing, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-162) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The environmental noxiousness, racial inequities and community health project: blurring the boundaries between community and the ivory tower -- A history of violence : indigenous and black conquest, dispossession and genocide in settler colonial nations -- Re-thinking waste : mapping racial geographies of violence on the colonial landscape -- Not in my backyard : the politics of race, place and waste in Nova Scotia -- Sacrificial lives : how environmental racism gets under the skin -- Narratives of resistance, mobilizing, and activism: the fight against environmental racism in Nova Scotia -- The road up ahead.