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Which came first, people or pollution? A review of theory and evidence from longitudinal environmental justice studies

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2015
A considerable number of quantitative analyses have been conducted in the past several decades that demonstrate the existence of racial and socioeconomic disparities in the distribution of a wide variety of environmental hazards.
Paul Mohai, Robin Saha
doaj   +1 more source

Balancing the Scales of Environmental Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
This Essay discusses various ways to weave principles of justice and equity into solving the problem of environmental racism. This Essay also demonstrates the enormous potential of the waste management industry to act as an agent for environmental ...
McDermott, Charles J.
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Trump, Populism, Fascism, and the Road Ahead [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This review essay offers a discussion of some recent studies that help to explain the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA. The studies examine Trump as “media spectacle,” analyze his support among Tea Partiers, and discuss his backing by ...
van der Linden, Harry
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Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feminist perspectives on environmental justice and health in Jamaica

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
Jamaica is an island nation with a history that is informed by Taino settlement, European colonisation, chattel slavery, disinvestment, and continued extractivism. This perspective paper leverages a historical analysis to explore environmental injustices
Neena Albarus   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Racism in Indianapolis

open access: yesENGAGE! Co-created Knowledge Serving the City, 2021
Community-engaged research, grounded in the humanities and social sciences and rooted in ethnographic methods, can provide important insights into the ways that environmental racism impacts neighborhoods and communities. The Anthropocene Household project at the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute explores the current geological epoch, the Age of ...
openaire   +3 more sources

“Environmental Racism! That’s What It Is.” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
In this essay, Professor Lazarus discusses former NAACP director the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis\u27s characterization of U.S. environmental policy as environmental racism.
Lazarus, Richard J.
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Examining discourses of whiteness and the potential for reconciliation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The aim of this paper is to explore how examining discourses of whiteness can contribute to an anti-racism that does not simply reduce racism to problems located with the ‘other’ or focus on the benefits of anti-racism for the dominant group.
Ahmed   +67 more
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Race and Household Income are Associated with Disease Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with ANCA‐associated Vasculitis Hospitalized in the United States

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives Race and household income impact outcomes in patients with rheumatic conditions; however, their role in pediatric anti‐neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)‐associated vasculitis (AAV) remains poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate whether race/ethnicity and household income are associated with severe AAV disease and renal outcomes among ...
Roberto Alejandro Valdovinos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological Crisis, or “Intersex Panic,” as Answer of the Real? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Drawing upon Cal’s eventual metamorphosis into “The [white] Man” in Middlesex, and an examination of the Real of ecological crisis, Hsu explores the intersection of environmental racism, climate change denial, and intersex discrimination in order to ...
Hsu, Stephanie
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