Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality, Third Edition

Robert D. Bullard

Westview Press, Mar 31, 2008 - Social Science - 300 pages

To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.

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One will learn real world facts about the lackluster climate to prosecute serious environmental crimes in the United States up to the early 1990's, and why non-white minorities--especially those living in the Deep South--have historically failed to embrace the GREEN ecology movement that really begun with Earth Day1970 and creation of the EPA. Interestingly, large communities with substantial African-American populations--New Orleans, Memphis, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami--lead by seemingly "anti-Green" Democrats "of color", continue to have severe ecological problems and are appearing each year on TRAVEL+LEISURE's "America's Dirtiest Cities" list.  

Contents

• 1 Environmentalism and Social Justice: 1
• 2 Race Class and the Politics of Place: 21
• Case Studies: 37
• Survey Results: 75
• 5 Environmental Racism Revisited: 97
• 6 Environmental Justice as a Working Model: 113
• 7 Action Strategies for the TwentyFirst Century: 137
• Notes: 161
• Selected Bibliography: 181
• Resources and Contacts: 197
• Index: 225

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About the author

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 Center.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality, Third Edition
• Author: Robert D. Bullard
• Publisher: Westview Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0813344271, 9780813344270
• Length: 300 pages
• Subjects: Science / Environmental Science; Social Science / Sociology / General