Bookedited by 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.
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.