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• Title:There's something in the water : environmental racism in indigenous and black communities / Ingrid R.G. Waldron.
  
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• Variant Title:There is something in the water
  
• Author/Creator:Waldron, Ingrid, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Winnipeg ; Black Point, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2018].
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NB W35 T44 2018
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:c.1 Missing - 11-08-2023
    c.2 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Environmental justice.
  Mi'kmaq--Environmental justice.
  Indigenous Peoples--Health--Environmental aspects.
  Indigenous Peoples--Activism--Nova Scotia.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Racism--Environmental aspects--Canada.
  Environmental policy--Canada.
  Hazardous waste sites--Canada.
  Black people--Canada--Social conditions.
  Indigenous peoples--Canada--Politics and government.
  Canada--Race relations.
  
• Description:x, 173 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:In There'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 pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting dynamics of white supremacy, power, state-sanctioned racial violence, neoliberalism and racial capitalism in white settler societies. By and large, the environmental justice narrative in Nova Scotia fails to make race explicit, obscuring it within discussions on class, and this type of strategic inadvertence mutes the specificity of Mi'kmaq and African Nova Scotian experiences with racism and environmental hazards in Nova Scotia. By redefining the parameters of critique around the environmental justice narrative and movement in Nova Scotia and Canada, Waldron opens a space for a more critical dialogue on how environmental racism manifests itself within this intersectional context. Waldron also illustrates the ways in which the effects of environmental racism are compounded by other forms of oppression to further dehumanize and harm communities already dealing with pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as long-standing social and economic inequality. Finally, Waldron documents the long history of struggle, resistance, and mobilizing in Indigenous and Black communities to address environmental racism.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-162) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781773630571 (softcover)
  1773630571
  9781773630588 (epub)
  9781773630595 (kindle)
  
• 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.