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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Biopolitics of Waste

PART I. ANTEBELLUM ROOTS

1. Thomas Jefferson’s Ideal

2. The Decay of the Old

PART II. NEW CONSTRUCTIONS

3. Searching for Order

4. “How Do You Make Them So Clean and White?”

PART III. MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES

5. Dirty Work, Dirty Workers

6. Waste and Space Reordered

PART IV. ASSIMILATION AND RESISTANCE

7. Out of Waste into Whiteness

8. “We Are Tired of Being at the Bottom”

Conclusion: A Dirty History

Notes

Bibliography

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