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Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

Taylor, Dorceta E.

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Environmental StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1479861782
ISBN13: 9781479861781
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jun 20 2014
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.28
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Uncovers the systemic problems that expose poor communities to environmental hazards

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health. Due to entrenched segregation, zoning ordinances that privilege wealthier communities, or because businesses have found the 'paths of least resistance, ' there are many hazardous waste and toxic facilities in these communities, leading residents to experience health and wellness problems on top of the race and class discrimination most already experience. Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards. Renowned environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor focuses on the locations of hazardous facilities in low-income and minority communities and shows how they have been dumped on, contaminated and exposed.

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