Constructing insignificance: critical race perspectives on institutional failure in environmental justice communities

@article{Richter2018ConstructingIC,
  title={Constructing insignificance: critical race perspectives on institutional failure in environmental justice communities},
  author={Lauren Richter},
  journal={Environmental Sociology},
  year={2018},
  volume={4},
  pages={107 - 121}
}
  • Lauren Richter
  • Published 2 January 2018
  • Sociology
  • Environmental Sociology
ABSTRACT Environmental justice (EJ) literature rarely offers an explicit theory of race to explain processes of disparate environmental exposure and recourse in non-white and low-income communities. Failing to do so, analyses of environmental inequality risk eliding a central driver of environmental racism. Based on a case study of a contested birth defect cluster in California, this article traces the ways in which the evidence of environmental health harms are rendered conceptually invisible… 
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