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 R Richter}, journal={Environmental Sociology}, year={2018}, volume={4}, pages={107 - 121} }
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… CONTINUE READING
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