Bruce E. Johansen is professor emeritus of communication and Native American studies at the University of Nebraska.

• PrefaceChapter 1 BackgroundWhat Is Environmental Justice?Types of Environmental DiscriminationPerpetrators and VictimsChallenges and SolutionsFuture OutlookChapter 2 Unifying ThemesIntroductionMining: Mother Earth or Mother Lode?Lead, Lead Everywhere: Flint, Michigan's Water Crisis in ContextThe Political Economy of Lead Poisoning and Other Water Quality IssuesCanadian Tar Sands: From Treaty Forest to MoonscapePipelines and Protests"Cowboys" vs. "Indians": Racial Stereotyping and Agent Orange in VietnamFarmworkers: Toxicity as an Occupational HazardExtermination of the Buffalo as Environmental WarfareEnvironmental Racism and the Demise of an Ice WorldChapter 3 Cases: United States EastIntroductionHouston, Texas: Segregation, Sewage, and Environmental RacismAnniston, Alabama: A Plague of PCBsDickson, Tennessee: Environmental Racism's "Poster Child"A 100 Percent Chance of Pig-manure Showers in North CarolinaBridgeport, Connecticut: A Spreading Web of ToxinsChester, Pennsylvania: Unwilling Capital of HazmatSouth Chicago: Life and Death in the "Toxic Doughnut"Race, Class, and Toxicity at Love CanalNorth Carolina: Protesting Unwelcome Toxic DumpsDonald Trump, Hurricane Maria, and Puerto RicoTriana, Alabama: Dumped On, CeaselesslyMalathion and the Rosebud Sioux in Mission, South DakotaHouston, Texas: Always Awaiting the Next FloodAkwesasne: Land of the Toxic TurtlesThe Toxics Plantation: Life and Death in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"The Demographics of Death in New Orleans: Race, Class, and Hurricane KatrinaChapter 4 Cases: United States WestIntroductionMontana's Gros Ventre and Assiniboine: Gold Mining and Cyanide PoisoningThe Mothers of East Los Angeles Stand Down a Toxic Incinerator—and MorePueblo, Colorado: The Toxic Legacy of the "Pittsburgh of the West"Richmond, California: The Greens vs. Big OilAlaska's Pebble Mine: Corporate Gold vs. Natives' SalmonAlaska Natives: Swamped by WarmingThe Point Hope Eskimos: An Atomic Harbor and a Nuclear Dump as a Neighbor"The Most Bombed Nation on Earth"Utah's Goshute Asked to House Waste Uranium—but Were DeniedThe Laguna Pueblo and Anaconda's Jackpile Uranium MineThe Navajos' Nuclear LegacyThe Largest Uranium Spill in the United StatesHunting Grounds to Dumping GroundsThe Moapa Paiute: Good-Bye Toxic Ash: Solar In, Coal Power OutChapter 5 Cases: CanadaIntroductionGrassy Narrows, Ontario: The Continuing Toxic Toll of MercuryThe Aamjiwnaang of Ontario: Immersed in a Toxic BathDumping on Blacks in Africville, Nova ScotiaBritish Columbia: Native Canadians vs. Mining's "New Prosperity"The Crees: Hydro Quebec's Electric DreamsThe Lubicon Cree: Land Rights and Resource ExploitationThe Dene: Killed by the "Money Rock"The Inuit: Mother's Milk Is ToxicWho Is Liable for Ruining a Culture? The Inuit Sue the United States of AmericaSelected BibliographyIndex

Bruce E. Johansen is professor emeritus of communication and Native American studies at the University of Nebraska.

• PrefaceChapter 1 BackgroundWhat Is Environmental Justice?Types of Environmental DiscriminationPerpetrators and VictimsChallenges and SolutionsFuture OutlookChapter 2 Unifying ThemesIntroductionMining: Mother Earth or Mother Lode?Lead, Lead Everywhere: Flint, Michigan's Water Crisis in ContextThe Political Economy of Lead Poisoning and Other Water Quality IssuesCanadian Tar Sands: From Treaty Forest to MoonscapePipelines and Protests"Cowboys" vs. "Indians": Racial Stereotyping and Agent Orange in VietnamFarmworkers: Toxicity as an Occupational HazardExtermination of the Buffalo as Environmental WarfareEnvironmental Racism and the Demise of an Ice WorldChapter 3 Cases: United States EastIntroductionHouston, Texas: Segregation, Sewage, and Environmental RacismAnniston, Alabama: A Plague of PCBsDickson, Tennessee: Environmental Racism's "Poster Child"A 100 Percent Chance of Pig-manure Showers in North CarolinaBridgeport, Connecticut: A Spreading Web of ToxinsChester, Pennsylvania: Unwilling Capital of HazmatSouth Chicago: Life and Death in the "Toxic Doughnut"Race, Class, and Toxicity at Love CanalNorth Carolina: Protesting Unwelcome Toxic DumpsDonald Trump, Hurricane Maria, and Puerto RicoTriana, Alabama: Dumped On, CeaselesslyMalathion and the Rosebud Sioux in Mission, South DakotaHouston, Texas: Always Awaiting the Next FloodAkwesasne: Land of the Toxic TurtlesThe Toxics Plantation: Life and Death in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"The Demographics of Death in New Orleans: Race, Class, and Hurricane KatrinaChapter 4 Cases: United States WestIntroductionMontana's Gros Ventre and Assiniboine: Gold Mining and Cyanide PoisoningThe Mothers of East Los Angeles Stand Down a Toxic Incinerator—and MorePueblo, Colorado: The Toxic Legacy of the "Pittsburgh of the West"Richmond, California: The Greens vs. Big OilAlaska's Pebble Mine: Corporate Gold vs. Natives' SalmonAlaska Natives: Swamped by WarmingThe Point Hope Eskimos: An Atomic Harbor and a Nuclear Dump as a Neighbor"The Most Bombed Nation on Earth"Utah's Goshute Asked to House Waste Uranium—but Were DeniedThe Laguna Pueblo and Anaconda's Jackpile Uranium MineThe Navajos' Nuclear LegacyThe Largest Uranium Spill in the United StatesHunting Grounds to Dumping GroundsThe Moapa Paiute: Good-Bye Toxic Ash: Solar In, Coal Power OutChapter 5 Cases: CanadaIntroductionGrassy Narrows, Ontario: The Continuing Toxic Toll of MercuryThe Aamjiwnaang of Ontario: Immersed in a Toxic BathDumping on Blacks in Africville, Nova ScotiaBritish Columbia: Native Canadians vs. Mining's "New Prosperity"The Crees: Hydro Quebec's Electric DreamsThe Lubicon Cree: Land Rights and Resource ExploitationThe Dene: Killed by the "Money Rock"The Inuit: Mother's Milk Is ToxicWho Is Liable for Ruining a Culture? The Inuit Sue the United States of AmericaSelected BibliographyIndex

Bruce E. Johansen is professor emeritus of communication and Native American studies at the University of Nebraska.

• PrefaceChapter 1 BackgroundWhat Is Environmental Justice?Types of Environmental DiscriminationPerpetrators and VictimsChallenges and SolutionsFuture OutlookChapter 2 Unifying ThemesIntroductionMining: Mother Earth or Mother Lode?Lead, Lead Everywhere: Flint, Michigan's Water Crisis in ContextThe Political Economy of Lead Poisoning and Other Water Quality IssuesCanadian Tar Sands: From Treaty Forest to MoonscapePipelines and Protests"Cowboys" vs. "Indians": Racial Stereotyping and Agent Orange in VietnamFarmworkers: Toxicity as an Occupational HazardExtermination of the Buffalo as Environmental WarfareEnvironmental Racism and the Demise of an Ice WorldChapter 3 Cases: United States EastIntroductionHouston, Texas: Segregation, Sewage, and Environmental RacismAnniston, Alabama: A Plague of PCBsDickson, Tennessee: Environmental Racism's "Poster Child"A 100 Percent Chance of Pig-manure Showers in North CarolinaBridgeport, Connecticut: A Spreading Web of ToxinsChester, Pennsylvania: Unwilling Capital of HazmatSouth Chicago: Life and Death in the "Toxic Doughnut"Race, Class, and Toxicity at Love CanalNorth Carolina: Protesting Unwelcome Toxic DumpsDonald Trump, Hurricane Maria, and Puerto RicoTriana, Alabama: Dumped On, CeaselesslyMalathion and the Rosebud Sioux in Mission, South DakotaHouston, Texas: Always Awaiting the Next FloodAkwesasne: Land of the Toxic TurtlesThe Toxics Plantation: Life and Death in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"The Demographics of Death in New Orleans: Race, Class, and Hurricane KatrinaChapter 4 Cases: United States WestIntroductionMontana's Gros Ventre and Assiniboine: Gold Mining and Cyanide PoisoningThe Mothers of East Los Angeles Stand Down a Toxic Incinerator—and MorePueblo, Colorado: The Toxic Legacy of the "Pittsburgh of the West"Richmond, California: The Greens vs. Big OilAlaska's Pebble Mine: Corporate Gold vs. Natives' SalmonAlaska Natives: Swamped by WarmingThe Point Hope Eskimos: An Atomic Harbor and a Nuclear Dump as a Neighbor"The Most Bombed Nation on Earth"Utah's Goshute Asked to House Waste Uranium—but Were DeniedThe Laguna Pueblo and Anaconda's Jackpile Uranium MineThe Navajos' Nuclear LegacyThe Largest Uranium Spill in the United StatesHunting Grounds to Dumping GroundsThe Moapa Paiute: Good-Bye Toxic Ash: Solar In, Coal Power OutChapter 5 Cases: CanadaIntroductionGrassy Narrows, Ontario: The Continuing Toxic Toll of MercuryThe Aamjiwnaang of Ontario: Immersed in a Toxic BathDumping on Blacks in Africville, Nova ScotiaBritish Columbia: Native Canadians vs. Mining's "New Prosperity"The Crees: Hydro Quebec's Electric DreamsThe Lubicon Cree: Land Rights and Resource ExploitationThe Dene: Killed by the "Money Rock"The Inuit: Mother's Milk Is ToxicWho Is Liable for Ruining a Culture? The Inuit Sue the United States of AmericaSelected BibliographyIndex