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A timely, and incisive analysis of the policies that created Flint's drinking water crises, and will do the same elsewhere.
List of contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Flint Sacrifice Zone
Terressa A. Benz and Graham Cassano
PART 1
Structure in Context
1 Neoliberalism, Urban Policy and Environmental Degradation
David Fasenfest
2 Colorblind Michigan
The Legal Impossibility of Environmental Justice in Flint and Southwest Detroit
Terressa A. Benz
3 Stockton Isn’t Flint, or Is It? Race and Space in Comparative Crisis Driven Urbanization
Raoul S. Liévanos and Julie Sze
4 Too Close to Home
The Incidence and Health Effects of Neighborhood Neglect in Flint, Michigan
Katrinell M. Davis
5 Housing Waste
The Lakeside Public Housing Complex, Pontiac, Michigan
Graham Cassano, Jon Carroll and Daniel J. Clark
PART 2
Reaction and Resistance
6 Technocracy and Populism
Remaking Urban Governance in Post-Democratic Flint
Jacob Lederman
7 Waging Love from Detroit to Flint
Michael Doan, Shea Howell and Ami Harbin
8 Bottling Public Thirst
Scarcity, Abundance, and the Exploitation of “Need” in Mid-Michigan
A.E. Garrison
9 Lead Does (Not) Discriminate
Environmental Racism in Expert and Popular Discourse
Benjamin J. Pauli
Afterword: The Flint Water Crisis, KWA and Strategic-Structural Racism
Written Testimony Submitted to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission Hearings on the Flint Water Crisis
Peter J. Hammer
Index
About the author
Terressa A. Benz received her Ph.D in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine. She is the author, most recently, of Black Femininity and Stand Your Ground: Controlling Images and the Elusive Defense of Self-Defense (Critical Sociology, forthcoming).
Graham Cassano received his Ph.D in Sociology from Brandeis University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on social theory, racial and ethnic history, and the sociology of culture, including A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948 (Haymarket, 2015).
Summary
A timely, and incisive analysis of the policies that created Flint's drinking water crises, and will do the same elsewhere.
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