Dumping In Dixie: Race | Class and Environmental Quality

Robert Bullard has been an activist for decades, and this book, which first came out in 1990, is still just as relevant today as it was back then. Bullard discusses environmental justice in relation to African American communities, and how they have been (and still continue to be) disproportionately affected by climate change and by corporations who take advantage of these communities. He also discusses organizing strategies and what individuals can do to help their own communities and those who are affected the most. ---- 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 environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.