By Rachel Godsil (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In November 1995, the East New York Community Committee Against the Incinerator celebrated a victory: the Committee had just defeated a wood-waste incinerator slated for a permit in the primarily African-American and Latino community of Brooklyn's East New York area. A few months later, another Brooklyn … [Read more...] about “The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen” by Rachel Godsil (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
Symposium Responses
“Race and Poverty Data as a Tool in the Struggle for Environmental Justice” by Mary L. Moss (July-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Kary L. Moss (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This Special Issue of Poverty & Race, for which I am Guest Editor- the second half of which will appear in the next issue-focuses on the importance of racial and other demographic data in the Environmental Justice Movement. A common theme in the four case-studies presented here is the importance of information … [Read more...] about “Race and Poverty Data as a Tool in the Struggle for Environmental Justice” by Mary L. Moss (July-June 1996 P&R Issue)
“Analysis of Racially Disparate Impacts in the Siting of Environmental Hazards” by Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This article focuses on one aspect of a broad challenge by Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (CANT), a grassroots coalition in Louisiana, to the proposed construction, between two small African American communities-Forest Grove and Center Springs--of the first privately owned … [Read more...] about “Analysis of Racially Disparate Impacts in the Siting of Environmental Hazards” by Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
Affirmative Action, R.I.P.
Affirmative action, as we have known it, is probably dead. Good riddance. For the past quarter of a century, many blacks have looked to affirmative action, despite its shortcomings, as a symbol of America's longdenied promise of racial equality. But its original purpose, as a means to help compensate African-Americans for slavery and its racist legacy, has long since been … [Read more...] about Affirmative Action, R.I.P.
Affirmative Action: Why Bosses Like It
Corning, a small town in upstate New York, used to be about as multicultural as an episode of "I Love Lucy." In the past decade, however, it has made enormous efforts to immerse itself in the melting pot, getting hooked up to a black-oriented cable channel, bringing in a black hairdressing business (which has recently decamped) and instituting a "diversity awareness" program in … [Read more...] about Affirmative Action: Why Bosses Like It
