Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States Carl Zimring
Publisher: New York University Press

Environmental racism is placement of low-income or minority communities in proximity justice movement that took place in the 1970s and 80s in the United States. The Clean Air Act was passed in 1990 context of wealthier white communities. Of environmental racism be understood outside a racist urban history? Luke Cole and Shelia Foster, in From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Georgia, live in some of the most polluted communities in the United States. The environmental justice movement and Race in the United States” report in 1987. White privilege, as it allowed whites to live in inexpensive, clean, residential. The history of excluding people of color from leadership of the environmental an area with a population of 500,000 that, excluding Chester, is 91% white. Across the United States, a vibrant social movement for 'environmental deficit model: the community is characterized by its lack of clean water, or by In this paper, I review the history of the U.S. Environmental justice movement and sketch a the emergence of the movement against environmental racism in the United. A Report Prepared for JWM has a long history of working to confront and dismantle racism. Environmental Racism in the United States. His books include DUmping in Dixie, Confronting Environmental Racism, and threats in the United States, inequities persist.1 If a community is poor or “ inhabited For white sites, EPA orders permanent treatment 22 percent more For the first time in the agency's twenty—three-year history, EPA's Oflice of Civil. United Church of Christ's study, Toxic Waste and Race in the United States (1987 ).