| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 251 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai -- Toxic waste and race in the United States / Charles Lee -- Can the environmental movement attract and maintain the support of minorities? / Dorceta Taylor -- The environmental voting record of the congressional Black caucus / Henry Vance Davis -- Toward a model of "environmental discrimination" / Michel Gelobter -- Environmental blackmail in minority communities / Robert Bullard -- Invitation to poison? Detroit minorities and toxic fish consumption from the Detroit river / Patrick C. West -- Minority anglers and toxic fish consumption : evidence from a statewide survey of Michigan / Patrick C. West [and 3 others] -- The effects of occupational injury, illness, and disease on the health status of Black Americans : a review / Beverly Hendrix Wright -- Hazardous waste incineration and minority communities / Harvey L. White -- Environmentalism and civil rights in Sumter County, Alabama / Conner Bailey and Charles E. Faupel -- Uranium production and its effects on Navajo communities along the Rio Puerco in Western New Mexico / Wm. Paul Robinson -- Environmental racism : reviewing the evidence / Paul Mohai and Bunyan Bryant -- Pesticide exposure of farm workers and the International connection / Ivette Perfecto -- The dumping of toxic waste in African countries : a case of poverty and racism / Mutombo Mpanya -- Summary / Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-251) |
| Notes |
Bunyan Bryant, Paul Mohai |
| Subject |
Environmental health -- United States
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Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- United States
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Environmental health.
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Environmental Health
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Health Status
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Minority Groups
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minorities.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Environmental health
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Minorities -- Health and hygiene
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bryant, Bunyan I
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Mohai, Paul
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| ISBN |
9780429303661 |
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0429303661 |
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9781000236972 |
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1000236978 |
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9781000272918 |
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1000272915 |
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9781000308853 |
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1000308855 |
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