The Role Of Prejudice In Metro-Atlanta

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

In “Disproportionate Siting” author Dorcetta Taylor discusses the common claims of unequal exposure to environmental hazards being due to racial and class discrimination (33). Taylor states, “Proponents of this thesis argue that hazardous facilities are disproportionally located in minority and low-income areas and that these patterns are the result of discrimination” (33). In regards to racial and social class discrimination, she argues that the claim of racism is the more controversial of the two with many scholars arguing on both sides (Taylor, 34). She then delves into different studies that argued that race was a factor in explaining location of and exposure to environmental hazards (Taylor, 35). Taylor then discusses the studies that

I have never seen the movie Pleasantville, which is what we watched this past week. Since I have never watched it before it was hard for me to have any prejudices towards the film. I do like the actors that were cast in this movie but that didn’t make me prejudice towards anything regarding the movie. I really didn’t know what to expect with this movie. The black and white made me wonder if it was going to be good because I have not seen very many black and white films. Nonetheless, having no prejudices and not really knowing what to expect this movie was pleasing to watch.

Ohio has a rare history, for not being prejudice. It was a state where people’s color of their skin did not matter, and had many interracial marriages. In Longtown Ohio, there was no difference between white, black, and Native American. The only thing that mattered was the way they acted. The man which caused this was James Clemens. He was a freed slave, who became a wealthy farmer. According to article “Ohio town holds rare history: Races mix freely for nearly 200 years”, by Washington Post, a man named Connor Keiser, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of James Clemens explains how he wants the state to stay the same when everyone was treated equally. Although the population of Longtown Ohio is now 98 percent white,

A man named Lester Maddox owned a restaurant in Atlanta that discriminated against people of a different race than white. Atlanta, Georgia was a city that had many different views on the subject of racism. From the 1960s events, we can learn from our mistakes.

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

According to the 2010 census, approximately seventy percent of the United states consisted of Caucasians. Although Caucasians are the most dominant people in the United States of America, ethnic enclaves especially those in overpopulated cities such as Manhattan, have clearly proved that even the minorities have a representation. For a historian, Chinatown would be a depiction of how far the nation has come. Just about a century ago, due to prejudice against Asians, the nation allowed the congress to approve the practice of an unfair quota system. America was considerably a safe haven, a sanctimony, or perhaps a better chance at life for many immigrants, these unfair quotas systems resulted in a national day dedicated to mourning. A history

Where toxic waste is disposed of is one of the reasons why racism and classism leads to environmental factors. As referred in an article called ”Emelle, Alabama:

Many minorities’ communities and low income communities in the United States have an unequal distribution of toxic contamination, either by the release of hazardous chemicals on their neighborhood or by allocating waste management facilities. This is an outcome that the landmark 1987 United Church of Christ (UCC) report on toxic waste and race claimed was not the result of mere coincidence. Evidence of disproportionate economic impact from environmental mismanagement, as well as through the regulatory response to air pollution, was already considered a decade earlier by geographers and economists, though without the suggestion of discriminatory intent (e.g., Berry, et. al., 1977; and Harrison, 1975). Ultimately, the conclusion was that race

They have increased attention to the problem through media outlets and policy makers, and the number of organizations have increased to fight environmental injustices (9) One of the first major environmental justice events that sparked the attention of the environmental justice movement was the 1982 PCB landfill in Warren county North Carolina located in a predominantly African American community. The landfill ignited protests and over 500 people were arrested (2). Patterns of environmental injustices were studied and results concluded that “race was the single most important factor in predicting the location of hazardous facilities” (9). The studies showed that 3 out of 4 hazardous waste landfills were placed in predominantly African American communities and it took nearly two decades to get the landfill cleaned up. It took 1.8 million dollars to detoxify the contaminated soil and dig up and burn the soil at over 800 degrees F to remove the PCBs contaminating it (2). The soil was then put in a pit the size of a football field and seeded to grow grass over it (2). The federal government under President Clinton in 1994, who issued an executive order, required federal agencies to include environmental justice considerations in policy issues and assessments when

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

Montgomery County, Maryland prides itself of its diverse and respectful nature. Those who are prideful of this are predominately white. These very people are the most race-aware and would raise their voices if a vocal racist occasion occurred. However, they do not have the capacity to hear the silent racism which perpetuates within the walls of our institutions. I faced vocal racism from the first day of elementary school to the last of day of middle school. I was called a terrorist because I shared my muslim background with my peers. The very people who I considered friends always pointed out how the color of my skin was too brown. The blood my ancestors gave me was suddenly hated by their very own child. Why was my skintone so olive? Did

Prejudice was everywhere in the 1960s, and it’s still lurking in the shadows now. Although racism and sexism are less pronounced than they were before, they still exist today. People in the United States are not as far against prejudice as they like to think. Humanity has come far from openly discriminating against others and not being reprimanded, but there are still issues with racism, sexism, and other prejudices that make them sensitive topics.

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.

Ecological prejudice has likewise been brought on by the way that a few races are more prone to be in close vicinity to ranges of contamination than others. African American neighborhoods have generally been focused for the transfer of earth debasing waste. One helping variable to ecological bigotry is the way that numerous African Americans have low livelihoods and poor training and fail to offer the political force and association to oppose the acquaintance of risky material with nature 's domain. Minority races are likewise more averse to look for money related remuneration for wellbeing and ecological issues connected with the dumping of dangerous material in their neighborhoods. Also, whites have a tendency to live in more affluent neighborhoods that are far from mechanical territories. Due to racial segregation in urban regions, poisonous offices, for example, incinerators, landfills, and contaminating modern buildings, are basically put in close vicinity to dark neighborhoods (General Accounting Office, 1983, p. 1). Also, atomic waste dumps are likewise found in Native American reservations as Native Americans are yet an alternate race that is regularly focused for segregation. Minority races don 't have full get to the assets and apparatuses required to battle the arrangement of such offices. Additionally, they may pick not to battle for trepidation of losing occupations in the region. General Accounting Office (1983) contends that