For the article titled “”Lethal Water” please answer the following…

Question Answered step-by-step For the article titled “”Lethal Water” please answer the following… For the article titled “”Lethal Water” please answer the following questions:(1) What local industry is Flint, Michigan, best known for? Who was the leading employer, and how did changes in industry and employment affect the economic security and prosperity of Flint residents and the city? Did these economic changes play any role in the original plan to find a cheaper water source?(2) How do you think racial discrimination and poverty might play a role in the Flint crisis?(3) What parent voices did you hear and which did you most identify with? Do you think racial bias played a role in the crisis, since the most vocal parent covered in the news—and the researcher and physician who championed the need for change—were not members of the African American community in Flint?For the article titled:Pulido, L. (2016). “Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism”(1) First of all what is your reaction to learning more about the poisoning of an entire city? What is Pulido’s argument? Please provide quotes from the article.(2) What is racial capitalism?(3) Read the below excerpt from the article and provide your own insights into what you think Pulido means by how racism and ideology inform economic and environmental practices. Try and include discussions of outcast, underground, threat, racially devalued, and surplus place.The devaluation of Black (and other nonwhite) bodies has been a central feature of global capitalism for centuries (Robinson 2000) and creates a landscape of differential value which can be harnessed in diverse ways to facilitate the accumulation of more power and profit than would otherwise be possible (McIntryre and Nast 2011; Pulido 2016). “Racial capitalism captures the sense that actually existing capitalism exploits through culturally and socially constructed differences such as race, gender, region and nationality and is lived through those uneven formations” (Lowe 2015, 149-150). Flint was abandoned by capital decades ago, and as it became an increasingly poor and Black place, it was also abandoned by the local state. This abandonment can be seen in shrinking services, infrastructure investment, and democratic prac- tices. Such treatment, including deliberate poisoning, is reserved for those who are not only racially devalued but considered incapable of contributing to accumulation. This goes beyond conventional understandings of surplus labor as simply, “reserve” labor. Drawing on Collard and Dempsey’s typology of non- human surplus, I argue that Black Flint residents constitute three forms of surplus: “Outcast,” “Underground,” and “Threat,” all of which will be elaborated on. Although there are white Flint residents, they suffer a fate similar to their Black neighbors insofar as the entire city is racialized as Black. The situation in Flint is of concern to all of us, not only because of its tragic nature, but because as a racially devalued, surplus place, it is a testing ground for new forms of neoliberal practice that will become increasingly common. Arts & Humanities Writing ENGL 103 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)