Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards: A Time for Discourse.

Abstract

Introduction (Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai.) Toxic Waste and Race in the United States (Charles Lee.) Can the Environmental Movement Attract and Maintain the Support of Minorities? (Dorceta Taylor.) The Environmental Voting Record of the Congressional Black Caucus (Henry Vance Davis.) Toward a Model of Environmental Discrimination (Michel Gelobter.) Environmental Blackmail in Minority Communities (Robert Bullard.) Invitation to Poison? Detroit Minorities and Toxic Fish Consumption from the Detroit River (Patrick C. West.) Minority Anglers and Toxic Fish Consumption: Evidence from a Statewide Survey of Michigan (P. C. West, J. Mark Fly, Frances Larkin, and Robert W. Marans.) The Effects of Occupational Injury, Illness, and Disease on the Health Status of Black Americans: A Review (Beverly Hendrix Wright.) Hazardous Waste Incineration and Minority Communities (Harvey L. White.) Environmentalism and Civil Rights in Sumter County, Alabama (Conner Bailey and Charles E. Faupel.) Uranium Production and Its Effects on Navajo Communities Along the Rio Puerco in Western New Mexico (Wm. Paul Robinson.) Environmental Racism: Reviewing the Evidence (P. Mohai and B. Bryant.) Pesticide Exposure of Farm Workers and the International Connection (Ivette Perfecto.) The Dumping of Toxic Waste in African Countries: A Case of Poverty and Racism (Mutombo Mpanya.) Summary (B. Bryant and P. Mohai.).