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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"environmental racism"”.
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Framing Flint : comparing mainstream and black newspaper coverage in the wake of environmental racism.
… polluted river water along with a history of environmental injustices quickly drew criticism as an issue of environmental racism. Fighting environmental racism often originates from grassroots efforts and depends on voices from minority communities. By drawing on critical race and framing …
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Contamination Running Deep: Oral Histories of Environmental Racism, Injustice, and Outrage of One Family in a Southern African-American Community
… Jordan, and Darius Jordan, have endured the environmental contamination and social injustices. These family members are children and grandchildren of Willie and Lillian Wells who moved to Hyde Park in 1950 with the intention of living the "American Dream" and creating a legacy for future …
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The intersection of environmental racism and conservation: a systematic review of publications affiliated with UCT that deal with race and environmental sustainability
… following research explores the intersection of environmental racism and conservation in literature affiliated with the University of Cape Town, through the means of a systematic review. This systematic review is contextualised by not only the socio-economy of Cape Town and the greater South …
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The construction of environmental justice: Warren County, North Carolina
"By seeking to ameliorate environmental problems while also working to alleviate poverty and oppression, the construct of environmental justice has transformed environmental activism and altered the national environmental agenda. The controversy over the Warren County landfill is seen as the birth …
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Divisor de águas no Rio do Peixe: ambientalização dos conflitos sociais e racismo ambiental vivenciados pelos comunitários do Quati - Ba
… The aim is to understand the conflicts and environmental racism experienced by the members of the Quati community before, during, and after the event of the dam breach. This relationship is a result of the environmental disaster caused by the breach of the Quati Dam, on July 11, 2019. …
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Edible Praxis: Negotiating the Politics of Food and Culture in an Urban Food Desert
… as a context for understanding eco-trauma (e.g., environmental racism and grocery gaps) and cultural healing (e.g., reclaiming cultural knowledge lost under legacies of slavery and colonization). This study critiques whiteness as a normative logic that operates in the politics of food. …
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The Determinants of Hazardous Waste Siting
Environmental justice and environmental racism issues have become increasingly important as minority and low income communities perceive theirs to be the hosts of a disproportionate number of hazardous waste sites and hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility (TSDF) owners and …
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Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city.
… reversal of white flight, and intensification of environmental racism. By figuring social equity as a product of economic and environmental resilience strategies, the rhetorical form of de Blasio's speech and OneNYC plan centralizes neoliberal market logic of development as a natural, organic mode …
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Influence of Income on Environmental Education Practices in High Wealth and Low Wealth Areas: A Review of the Literature
<p>Environmental education is an important component in the science curriculum in schools. However, not all students have equal access to the benefits offered through these programs. Currently in low-income minority communities students are faced with a number of challenges in the public school …
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Revolutionships: Experiences of Queer Women of Color Maintaining Romantic Relationships while Engaging in Contemporary Movements for Liberation
… settler colonial state that sanctions violence, environmental racism, and homophobia, QWOC are cultivating love in the face of oppressions they seek to dismantle daily. I used a Black Feminist grounded theory framework to explore the experiences of QWOC in romantic relationships who were also …
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Reorienting Sonic Creativity Amid Ecological Disorientation
… the afterlives of industrial asbestos waste and environmental racism in Ambler, Pennsylvania; a video experiment in “pneumatography”; and two syllabi, available as supplementary files.
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Bad Water, Dirty Politics: Contrasting Governmental Responses to Two U.S. Water Crises
… that the Flint Water Crisis is an example of environmental racism because the willful negligence of Flint city officials amounted to the official sanctioning of lead -- a detrimental neurotoxin -- in the city's water. In this era of a new civil rights movement under the banner of …
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Multiscalar Toxicities: Mapping Environmental Injustice in and Beyond the Nail Salon
… work centers the nail salon a site of potential environmental and occupational health harms due to routine exposure to toxicants, labour exploitation, and verbal and other abuses. These hazards are rooted in structural inequities that position immigrant-settler women of colour in precarious and …
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The Racialization of Relationships Between Higher Education Institutions and Cities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Changing North Denver
… discrimination; air, water, and soil pollution; environmental racism; highway construction and expansion; school dilapidation; and social, political, and economic neglect for over five decades (Doeppers, 1967; Cram, 2013; EPA, 2019). As the City of Denver turns its attention to these three …
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The Impacts of Exclusionary Zoning Practices and Gentrification on Low-Income and Minority Populations in America's Inner Cities
… inequalities and institutional classism and racism. In addition, the research will examine the use of public policies and regulations that maintain the existing isolation and concentration of minorities and low-income families through disinvestment.
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Decolonizing the YA North: Environmental Injustice in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans
… “developing”— can lead to catastrophic environmental degradation. Smith’s novel also diverges from other YA novels in that her protagonist is of African descent.</p> <p>This thesis considers how global understandings of the North/South divide can lead to understandings of the divide on a …