Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California
- L. Pulido
- Sociology
- 1 March 2000
Geographic studies of environmental racism have focused on the spatial relationships between environmental hazards and community demographics in order to determine if inequity exists. Conspicuously…
Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism
- L. Pulido
- Art
- 2 July 2016
In this essay, I argue that the recent poisoning in Flint, Michigan, is a powerful example of both environmental racism and the everyday functioning of racial capitalism. As a journal devoted to le...
Geographies of race and ethnicity II
- L. Pulido
- Sociology
- 1 August 2017
In this report I argue that environmental racism is constituent of racial capitalism. While the environmental justice movement has been a success on many levels, there is compelling evidence that it…
A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE METHODOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM RESEARCH
- L. Pulido
- Sociology
- 1 April 1996
Research on environmental racism has emphasized positive rationality. While useful for policy and legal interventions, this is problematic from a radical political and theoretical viewpoint. By…
Reflections on a White Discipline
- L. Pulido
- Art
- 1 February 2002
Utilizing a partially autobiographical format, this article considers the practice and study of race within geography. I argue that the overwhelmingly white composition of the discipline has very…
Muddying the waters: coauthoring feminisms across scholarship and activism
- E. Chowdhury, L. Pulido, R. Nagar
- Sociology
- 30 October 2014
aWomen’s & Gender studies, university of massachusetts, Boston, mA, usA; bDepartment of American studies & ethnicity, university of southern California, los Angeles, CA, usA; cGeography, university…
Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest
- L. Pulido
- Economics
- 1996
Ecological causes are championed not only by lobbyists or hikers. While mainstream environmentalism is usually characterized by well-financed, highly structured organizations operating on a national…
State Regulation and Environmental Justice: The Need for Strategy Reassessment
- L. Pulido, Ellen Kohl, Nicola Cotton
- Law
- 4 March 2016
In this paper, we explore how environmental justice activists’ reliance on state regulation has inhibited their ability to achieve their goals – an important topic whose oversight we do not believe...
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN LOS ANGELES
- L. Pulido, Steve Sidawi, R. Vos
- Sociology
- 1 July 1996
This paper focuses on the historical evolution of discriminatory pollution patterns in Los Angeles. We argue that the historical processes leading to environmental racism cannot be understood without…
Geographies of race and ethnicity 1
- L. Pulido
- Sociology
- 21 January 2015
In this report I compare two forms of racism: white privilege and white supremacy. I examine how they are distinct and can be seen in the environmental racism arena. I argue that within US geographic…
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