Environmental Racism: Brandywine

On chapter 1 Melissa Checker’s “Polluted Promises”. She focusses on the research of Hyde Park, Georgia, and the tenacious activism of its two hundred African American people, how the community was struggling for environmental justice through mobilization and grassroots movements. The Residents are suffering with concerns in their community. She wants to know how environment movement organization has damage African and Urban activist. This community is at one time surrounded by nine polluting industries. The community was struggling to have their voice heard again and also to make their community safe. She also argues on how the Hyde Park stands for many other African American and other poor and minority communities. Hyde Park shows the post-civil

This makes me qualified to do this research paper. Additionally, I am able to contact experts on the issue who can offer their opinion and knowledge on the issue. The sources used in this paper will be from Academic Search Premier. Academic Search Premier has a plethora of resources I can use for my empirical paper. The sources (articles) I will use will be peer reviewed and they will from the year 2007 and onward. I will try to steer clear of articles that are older than this because the data may not reflect the current situation. Therefore, the data will be more recent. The first source I will be using is a peer review article by Hines. The article talks specifically about the statics in Emelle Alabama and the detrimental effects of hazardous waste dumping in the county. The second article will be by Hurley who looks at the environmental racism history of America and how that affects minorities now. The third article is by Mcdoll who gives the background on how minorities are mistreated and treated unfairly when it comes to choosing where noxious waste facilities

With the rapid development of the society, a large number of factories are built to meet the demand of the market. However, the problem of factory emission and processing system has been perplexing the residents of Flint. Flint water crisis’s crucial problem is based on environmental racism. Meanwhile, Flint is in uneven development situation and need to rebuild the infrastructure system.

Those who argue that environmental racism is a serious problem in America and the whole world, and their number are growing, are correct in at least one of their assertions. Racism exists. environmental problems exist. these facts, however, do not reveal whether or not environmental racism has occurred in any given instance. this might be an unimportant distinction but for the fact that some argue that civil right laws be applied to pollution events and related regulatory violations.

The earliest reference to “environmental racism” originated in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1982. A mainly African American neighborhood rallied to protest the construction of a noxious waste landfill. The community was well-backed with the support of the United Church of Christ. The remonstration resulted in well over five hundred arrests for civil disobedience. Its impact caused other explorations in southern communities across of the United States of America. In 1987, The Commission for Racial Justice of the

In the middle of her struggle, Moody offers insights and correctives to some common interpretations of down south black involvement. They believed that since the black churches were focal points of the community’s beliefs and social groups that they were also in the front position during the first occurrence of racial discrimination. Although, for Moody’s experience, this was not true, well at least in Centreville and the rest of Wilkinson

Problem Identification: As African American moved to Prince George’s County to be part of a phenomenon that has been rare in American history: a community that grew more upscale as it became more black. “The county became a national symbol of the American Dream with a black twist” (Michael, 2015). However, their dreams were shattered.

Humans were judged by skin color. However, people in Longtown were a “bold experiment in integration.” 22 year old blue eyed and paled skin Connor Keiser, explained how he grew up with cousins of all colors. According to the Washington Post, Keiser was not going to let Longtown die. Therefore, he did not. In the article “Ohio town holds rare history: Races mix freely for about 200 years” by Washington Post, Adapted by Newsela Staff, we explore that Keisers determination lead him to get Longtown recognized by the National Park service and the National Railroad Freedom Center. Longtown is now known for it’s early integration and educational opportunities for blacks. Keiser was successful with his idea.

Do you have a railyard hosts near your school? Have you ever breath in the toxic fumes of the factories which next to your home? Barrio Logan is an old community which located near the jungle of I-5 freeway, a Navy base and three large shipyards, it is also the homeland of more than 50,876 of low-income minority and the most industrialized areas in the San Diego. People name it as the “California’s toxic hot spots” since the area has been struggled with the unhealthy mixed land use of industries, school and homes. In the past few years, people has been living in a neighborhood that overburdens with different toxic pollution and emissions which produced from the unregulated industries and chemical supply businesses. The pollution not

When one discusses acts of racism, slander or the stereotyping of a group of people may come to mind. However, the concept of environmental racism is rarely considered. This form of racism positions dominant environmental framing as racially driven, in which people of color (i.e. minorities) are affected disproportionately by poor environmental practices. Communities of color throughout the United States have become the dumping grounds for our nation’s waste disposal, as well as home to agricultural and/or manufacturing industries that pollute the land. Government regulations and cultural practices have all contributed to environmental racism. The government’s policies have also negatively impacted low income groups as well as people of

Did you know that 35 out of 57 waste sites in the eastern part of Los Angeles were located in zip codes with at least half the population consisting of Latinos? (Pulido 21) This is a direct and apparent representation of environmental racism in our country. In particular, its existence could be closely observed in the recent dispute of an urban farmland in South Central Los Angeles. Frankly, environmental racism had little effect on the actual dissolution of the South Central farm, as it was an issue of property rights. Instead, environmental racism played a significant role in the confrontation process that led to the closure by excluding minority groups, especially Latinos, from decision processes and obstructing their effort to conserve the farmland.

The environment people live in impacts them everyday. A lot of people around the world is being affected by the environment where they are living. The environmental racism is one of the biggest problems in the Earth that should be solved because this problem is killing and getting sick people daily. There are many reports about how this is increasing and impacting poor and black people, poor countries, and poor places. Politicians are always promising to try to reduce the quantity of landfills, incinerators, and air pollution but they never do it, it continue growing uncontrollably.

The environment people live in impacts them everyday. just like low income, minority, blacks, hispanics, latinos, asians, phillipons, latin americans, factory owners, people with money. Stated from the passages “ Rosenthall of the NAACP suggests keeping waste facilities out of areas already overburdened with waste or potential toxic exposure”. This proves that environmental racism is everywhere and you won't even know it.

Hazards and pollutants are apparent in a variety of outcomes. Possible outcomes include asthma, cancer and chemical poisoning (Gee and Payne-Sturges 2004: 1647). Furthermore, “Although debated, the main hypothesis explaining these disparities is that disadvantaged communities encounter greater exposure to environmental toxins such as air pollution, pesticides, and lead” (Gee and Payne-Sturges 2004: 1647). Therefore, disadvantaged groups, such as people of color and the poor, experience greater environmental risks. Additionally, “Blacks in particular are exposed to a disproportionate amount of pollution and suffer the highest levels of lead and pesticide poisoning and other associated health problems” (Jones and Rainey 2006: 474). People of color, essentially, compete to live healthily. For example, African-Americans and Africans alike, struggle with the negative affects of oil refineries and unresponsive governments. The same can be said for Hispanics in California and the natives of Ecuador, who are forced to cope with the pollution of the Texaco oil refineries (Bullard 2001: 4). Environmental racism not only exploits natural resources, it abuses and profits from the communities involved. Governments and polluting facilities will continue to capitalize on the economic susceptibilities of poor communities, states, nations and regions for their “unsound” and hazardous operations (Bullard 2001: 23).

The placement of companies deleterious to the environment and well-being of humans is something that prosperous communities are not quite familiar with; in contrast, it is something well-known to less affluent communities. The imbalance of classification shows a lack of environmental justice in low-income and minority communities. According to the EPA, or Environmental Protection Agency, “environmental justice is the fair treatment… of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies,” (EPA, n.d.). However, the environmental justice, the EPA mentions is not prevalent in communities of color, but rather its counterpart is: environmental injustice. Environmental injustice, or environmental racism, being the excessive placing of perilous waste and contaminating polluters near communities of color (Cha, 2016). Although often overlooked, environmental racism is an extensive problem that negatively affects minority communities in Southeast Los Angeles.