GEOG 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Benjamin Chavis, Cancer Alley, Environmental Racism
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Ucc and environmental racism churches got community involved in social issues. Dr. benjamin chavis, jr. controlled for every other variable, #1 predictor of where toxic waste facility would be located was race coined term environmental racism institutional racism, structural violence structure of society makes communities of color more vulnerable. Cesar chavez and ufw throughout 60s and 70s led struggle for worker"s rights and protections for migrant farmworkers farm work historically exempt from most wage and protection laws significant health risks from exposure to toxic pesticides. Right to know law; what toxins were being used. Clinton; bringing environmental justice as a framework into federal government decision-making. Only a beginning for addressing complex socioeconomic problems of injustice high abundance of chemical plants, oil refineries, other polluting institutions very low-income, communities of income has become one of the central sites of modern environment justice movement. Biased enforcement of environmental statutes by regulatory agencies faster action against pollution in more affluent and whiter neighborhoods.
