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catalyst-36623	Underhill, Vivian	From Kern Island to the Streets of Bakersfield: Logics of Contamination, Embodied Empiricisms, and the Afterlives of Reclamation 	2022		.htm	text/html	11051	686	53	Today, San Joaquin Valley environmental justice organizers rely on discourses of contamination to articulate the disproportionate chemical exposures of predominantly Latinx residents in fenceline communities such as Arvin. The valences of environmental contamination have shifted, such that whiteness is often positioned as—and produced through—environmental privilege and invulnerability to premature death.10 Today, chemical toxicity in the San Joaquin Valley disproportionately affects low-income Latinx groups, producing clear group-differentiated exposure to premature death through farmworkers’ occupational proximity to pesticides and fertilizers, or residents’ proximity to oil fields or storage tanks.	cache/catalyst-36623.htm	txt/catalyst-36623.txt