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Here We Go Again
Robert Bullard explains why the response to Katrina wasn't a fluke |
Gregory Dicum |
14 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| In the course of my interview with environmental-justice scholar and leader Robert Bullard, we discussed his current work on the history of environmental racism in the South. He had plenty to say about the ways that inadequate government response to disasters has affected people of color over the past seven decades. I asked him whether Katrina was part of the norm or stood out somehow ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics) |
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Justice in Time
Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice |
Gregory Dicum |
14 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Robert Bullard says he was "drafted" into environmental justice while working as an environmental sociologist in Houston in the late 1970s. His work there on the siting of garbage dumps in black neighborhoods identified systematic patterns of injustice. The book that Bullard eventually wrote about that work, 1990's Dumping in Dixie, is widely regarded as the first to fully articulate t ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics) |
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