Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality - Softcover

Bullard, Robert D.

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9780813379548: Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality

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ISBN 10: 0813379547 ISBN 13: 9780813379548

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

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To be poor, to be working class, to be female or a member of a minority group often means being subjected to a greater share the environmental problems of the US. Frequently environmenal disparities are merely another form of institutional discrimination. This book chronicles the efforts of five black communities to link environmentalism with the issues of social justice.

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Robert D. Bullard is a sociologist and long-time civil rights and environmental justice activist. He is professor of sociology at Clark Atlanta University, and also serves as director of the university's Environmental Justice Resource centre.

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