Toxic Water, Toxic System

Environmental Racism and Michigan's Water War

• Author(s): Michael Mascarenhas,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 334
• ISBN_10: 0520343875
  ISBN_13: 9780520343870
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Family & Relationships / General , Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection , Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy , Social Science / Sociology / Urban , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations , Social Science / Activism & Social Justice , Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Water Supply ,

Description:... The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of America’s third largest water system.

Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the 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. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality.

Drawing from three years of ethnographic fieldwork in Flint and Detroit, this book amplifies the voices of marginalized communities, particularly African American women, whose perspectives and labor have been consistently overlooked. Toxic Water, Toxic System offers a fresh perspective on the ties between urban austerity policies, environmental harm, and the advancement of white supremacist agendas in predominantly Black and brown cities.