(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Part One School segregation by race is extreme and increasing, despite the 1954 Brown decision. And, for many known reasons, these racial patterns clearly disadvantage blacks, Latinos, and other racial minorities. Today's courts are hostile to racially-based remedies and there is considerable resistance among the majority white … [Read more...] about “Symposium: Socioeconomic School Integration” (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)
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Symposium: Environmental Justice
The May/June P&R contained case-studies, written by activists - from Michigan, Louisiana, New York and California - illustrating successful use of demographic data in community environmental struggles. The two articles below, by academics working in this area, provide a more general discussion of the issue. July/August 1996 issue of Poverty & Race The May/June … [Read more...] about Symposium: Environmental Justice
