Copper stain: Asarco's legacy in El Paso

by Hampton, Elaine M.

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Title Statements

Full title :Copper stain : Asarco's legacy in El Paso / Elaine Hampton and Cynthia C. Ontiveros.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
Place of Publication:Norman
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 189 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780806161778, 0806161779
oclc:on1048015203
LC Classification:TD899.C59
Dewey Decimal:363.738

Introduction -- Setting and participants -- From mountain to metal ingot -- A field of land mines -- Illegal hazardous waste and deception -- Disease and death -- The El Paso Smelter's pollutants -- Lead pollution and its effects in the border area -- Health effects of exposure to Smelter pollutants -- Danny Arellano and community activism -- Environmental injustice and its systemic violence -- ASARCO's symbolic violence -- Research methodology.

Subjects

Air Pollutants, Occupational -- adverse… Air Pollutants, Occupational -- history Américains d'origine mexicaine Asarco Inc Copper -- adverse effects Copper mines and mining -- Environmenta… Copper mines and mining -- Environmenta… Entreprises -- Responsabilité sociale -… Environmental justice Environmental justice -- History -- 20t… Hazardous Waste -- adverse effects Hazardous Waste -- history History History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Justice environnementale -- Histoire --… Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Médecine -- Histoire -- 21e siècle Mexican Americans Political activism