Friday, December 3, 2021 | 5:30pm to 7pm
In our global cities today, immigrants of color are increasingly suffering hyper-pollution and alarming rates of asthma and cancer due to their residence near diesel-spewing shipping ports, freeways, and rail yards, all so that we can buy goods at big box stores that hail from China and other far-flung manufacturing nations; immigrants and other people of color also reside and work in nearby hazardous industries, like oil refineries that prop up the aforementioned goods movement apparatus. Indeed, Americans are consuming so much that there has been a supply chain log jam for a year. In response, immigrant-led resistance movements against these environmental hazards are among the most dynamic in our global cities. Yet, we know little about them. In this vein, Prof. Nadia Kim in her new book, Refusing Death, chronicles how Asian and Latina immigrant women activists for environmental justice in Los Angeles—namely cleaner, more breathable air—redefine racism and classism as a result of their struggles with environmental racism and classism, and their specific social positionings under neoliberal capitalism and white supremacy.
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