Book Reviews

摘要

Robert Bullard's (1990) work dumping In Dixie followed up on the 1987 United Church of Christ (UCC) Commission for Racial Justice study and illuminated the ways in which African American communities in America's South received a disproportionate burden of unwanted facilities. These studies showed how racial minorities in Houston, Dallas, Warren County and Norco encountered lead smelters, petrochemical complexes, weapons laboratories and toxic waste dumps at rates out of proportion to their percentage of the population. Areas such as Louisiana's Cancer Alley—running along the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans and populated primarily by African Americans—that ranks second in the US in terms of toxic chemicals released into the environment and that exemplify the concept of environmental racism.