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Tainted Tap: Flint’s Journey from Crisis to Recovery
Katrinell M. Davis
After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials.
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High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
Marc Masters
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like!
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Beyond the Kitchen Table: Black Women and Global Food Systems
Priscilla McCutcheon (ed.), Latrica E. Best (ed.), and Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley (ed.)
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of scholarship focused on race and food inequity. Much of this research is focused on the United States and its densely populated urban centers.
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Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Bobby J. Smith II
This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions.
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