SOCI 4620 Chapter 10: Week 10 Reading- Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
24 Apr 2021
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Week 10 reading- research in social problems and public. Equity, unnatural man-made disasters and race: why environmental justice. Matters in robert c. wilkinson, william r. freudenburg (ed. ) This chapter chronicles some of the early years of the author growing up in the racially segregated south. Alabama and its influence on his thinking about race, environment, social equity, and government responsibility and his journey to becoming an environmental sociologist, scholar, and activist. Using an environmental justice paradigm, he uncovers the underlying assumptions that contribute to and produce unequal protection. The environmental justice paradigm provides a useful framework for examining and explaining the spatial relation between the health of marginalized populations and their built and natural environment, and government response to natural and man-made disasters in african american communities. Making the race-environment connection- my early elba years: elba is located in coffee county, alabama. The racial makeup of the elba is 64 percent white, 34 percent black, and 2 percent other races.
