Race And The Incidence Of Environmental Hazards: A Time For Discourse

by Bunyan Bryant, Paul Mohai

Overview

This book discusses the poor and people of color and their struggle to take control of one of the most basic aspects of their lives: the quality of their environment. It exposes the fact of environmental inequity and its consequences in face of general neglect by policymakers and social scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000308853
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/26/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	251
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Bunyan Bryant, Paul Mohai

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Toxic Waste and Race in the United States -- Can the Environmental Movement Attract and Maintain the Support of Minorities? -- The Environmental Voting Record of the Congressional Black Caucus -- Toward a Model of “Environmental Discrimination” -- Environmental Blackmail in Minority Communities -- Invitation to Poison? Detroit Minorities and Toxic Fish Consumption from the Detroit River -- Minority Anglers and Toxic Fish Consumption: Evidence from a Statewide Survey of Michigan -- The Effects of Occupational Injury, Illness, and Disease on the Health Status of Black Americans: A Review -- Hazardous Waste Incineration and Minority Communities -- Environmentalism and Civil Rights in Sumter County, Alabama -- Uranium Production and Its Effects on Navajo Communities Along the Rio Puerco in Western New Mexico -- Environmental Racism: Reviewing the Evidence -- Pesticide Exposure of Farm Workers and the International Connection -- The Dumping of Toxic Waste in African Countries: A Case of Poverty and Racism -- Summary

Editorial Reviews

An introduction and summary by the editors enclose 14 chapter-papers on aspects of the disproportionate exposure of minority communities to environmental hazards--a patterned exposure so prevalent that minority communities may be thought of as indicators for the incidence of toxicity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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