Like good things, bad things are unequally distributed in America. Poor minorities get more than their share of environmental hazards-but they are fighting back.
References
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RobertBullard.Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Westview Press, 2000). The foundation of environmental justice studies, this book is a landmark work by the leading scholar in the field who is also the movement's most prominent advocate.
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David NaguibPellowRobertJ. Brulle, eds. Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (MIT Press, 2005). A hopeful but hard-hitting analysis of how far this young social movement has come and where it might be headed.
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AndrewSzasz.Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice (University of Minnesota Press, 1994). A groundbreaking study of the contemporary origins of environmental inequality in the United States and the story of how ordinary activists spearheaded a grassroots revolution to challenge this epidemic.
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NeilTangri.Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology (GAIA, 2003). A study commissioned by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives provides critical details concerning the rise and fall of the global waste-incineration industry.
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United Church of Christ. Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (UCC, 1987). The first national study to uncover the relationship between a community's racial composition and the location of waste sites.
