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Modern economies run on copper, but Copper Stain unearths the costs--human and environmental--in ways we rarely see. Through careful historical research and illuminating oral histories, Hampton and Ontiveros excavate the tragic consequences of ASARCO's frequently unconscionable and sometimes illegal actions in El Paso. The stories collected here remind us how environmental injustice and violence accrue in the bodies of workers, communities, and Earth itself. --Adam M. Sowards, author of The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation From Tacoma, Washington, to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, ASARCO's smelters have been lacing people's bodies with contaminants for well over a century now. Hampton and Ontiveros's study of El Paso presents the fruit of extensive research and interviews with dozens of the central actors in this drama. It delivers the human experience of this chronic violence with the immediacy and care that it demands. --Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Professor of History, McGill University Copper Stain is a powerful work of grassroots scholarship exposing the tremendous physical and social costs of ASARCO's El Paso smelter. By allowing the former workers to tell the stories of their declining health and the exploitation they have faced through their lives, Hampton and Ontiveros make a critical addition to our knowledge of environmental and workplace injustice. --Erik Loomis, author of Empire of Timber and Out of Sight

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Elaine Hampton's long career in education and research encompasses both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. Retired as Associate Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, she has written five books, including the award-winning Anay's Will to Learn: A Woman's Education in the Shadow of the Maquiladora. Cynthia C. Ontiveros has served as a science teacher and administrator in the El Paso Independent School District. She is the founding principal of the Young Women's STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) Research and Preparatory Academy.

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