Refusing death : immigrant women and the fight for environmental justice in LA / Nadia Y. Kim.

"The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and those "racist monuments" we call freeways. In this uncelebrated corner of "La La Land" through which most of America's goods...

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Main Author: Kim, Nadia Y. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
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505 0 |a Introduction : fighting for breath in the other LA -- Neoliberal embodied assault -- Emotions as power -- Every body matters -- "Our community has boundaries" : race and class matter -- Citizenship as gendered caregiving -- politics without the Politics -- The kids will save us -- Afterword : towards bioneglect. 
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