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

In There#x92;'s Something In The Water, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the p...

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Main Author: Waldron, Ingrid (Author)
Language:English
Published: Winnipeg ; Black Point, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2018]
Subjects:
Racism > Environmental aspects > Canada.
Environmental policy > Canada.
Hazardous waste sites > Canada.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Nova Scotia > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Canada > Social conditions.
Black people > Canada > Social conditions.
Native peoples > Canada > Politics and government.
Black people > Social conditions.
Environmental policy.
Hazardous waste sites.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Canada > Race relations.
Canada.
Nova Scotia.
Physical Description:x, 173 pages ; 23 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
Variant Title:
There is something in the water
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The environmental noxiousness, racial inequities and community health project
  • A history of violence : indigenous and black conquest, dispossession & 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 & waste in Nova Scotia
  • Sacrificial lives : how environmental racism gets under the skin
  • Narratives of resistance, mobilizing & activism in the fight against environmental racism in Nova Scotia
  • The road up ahead.