A review by kelseak96
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pasternak

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This story SHOULD be right up there with Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, but this book goes to show that while environmental devastation hits communities of color the hardest, we talk about these disasters the least. It's written in a style very similar to Evicted, with dense info artfully woven into the stories of the families most impacted by uranium mining on Diné lands. A must-read for environmental justice advocates, proponents of nuclear energy, anyone living near the Navajo Nation, and anyone who wants another example of the evils of the US government.
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