The Quest For Environmental Justice Av Robert D. Bullard

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. Racial disparities exist in disaster response. This book asks why some communities get...

<b>The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table.</b><p>In today''s food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods...

<div>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...

When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In <i>The Wrong...