Toxic City

Toxic City PDF Author: Lindsey Dillon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520396227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Book Description
"Toxic City examines the politics of environmental repair and urban redevelopment in a historically segregated neighborhood of San Francisco. The book argues that environmental racism is part of a broad history of harm linked to slavery and its afterlives, and that environmental justice can be considered within a larger project of reparations. The book also details how, over many decades, residents have argued that toxic cleanup and urban redevelopment ought to be a socially, economically, and ecologically reparative process that supports the self-determination of Black residents"--