In 1987, the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice released its groundbreaking study, Toxic Waste and Race in the United States. The report found race to be the most significant predictor of where hazardous waste facilities were located in the United States. We r...
In 1987 the CRJ published Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (1987), the first comprehensive national study of the demographic patterns associated with the location of hazardous waste sites. It stressed that the racial composition of a community was the single variable best able to ...
United Church of Christ (UCC). (1987).Toxic Waste and Race in the United States: ANational Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites.New York. U.S. General Accounting Office (USGAO). (1983).Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their...
Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socioeconomic Characteristics with Hazardous Waste Sites This article applies an existing five-item index for measuring source credibility in the context of environmental health-risk controversy. Survey data were... B ...
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose. Read more:Plot summary Directors Michael Herz|Lloyd Kaufman(as Samuel Weil) ...
this night has been a waste you think you're doing great i got nothing left to say you see me in your mind this place is hard to find you'll be just fine while you're running out of time say it loud play it proud just let it go it's going down baby round and round the tox...
are typically local and were chosen because they pose a threat to the environment and human health. The data about toxic waste management is easily accessible on the EPA website, where households can obtain information about polluting facilities in their home and potential destination counties....
1993. "Women and Toxic Waste Protest: Race, Class, and Gender as Resources of Resistance." Qualitative Sociology. 16(3): 247-262.Krauss, Celene. 1993. "Women and Toxic Waste Protests: Race, Class and Gender as Resources of Resistance." Qualitative Sociology 16(3...
Minorities still more likely to live near toxic sites - Ember - 1994 () Citation Context ...1997; Bowen et al. 1995; Davidson and Anderton 2000; Stretesky and Lynch 1999). One study showed that ethnic minorities are 47 percent more likely than Whites are to live near a toxic waste ...
Subsequently as the Movement broadened its power base, the media began to selectively accept toxic waste as an issue of narrowly defined "racial discrimination." More radical discourses which attribute toxic waste to class, race and fundamental power inequity in society were, however, conspicuously ...