Housing Inequality in America

Environmental Racism: How Residential Segregation Shapes Environmental Inequality

Contents of this path:

  1. Introduction
  2. Conceptualizing Environmental Racism: The 1987 Report on "Race and Toxic Waste"
  3. Explanations for Environmental Racism: Discriminatory Siting and Weak Regulation
  4. Explanations for Environmental Racism: The Racialization of Space and Economic Disinvestment
  5. The Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis (August/September 2022)
  6. The Jackson Water Crisis: A Case of Environmental Racism?
  7. The Residents of Jackson Respond
  8. Current Status of the Crisis
  9. Environmental Racism Works Cited
  10. Bio: Rene Ayala