Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0896087042 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorRobert D. His book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality has become a standard text in the environmental justice field. Two of his other books include Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press, 1993) and Highway Robbery (South End Press, 2004).. Bullard is the Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University
Bullard is the Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. His book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality has become a standard text in the environmental justice field. Robert D. Two of his other books include Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press, 1993) and Highway Robbery (South End Press, 2004).
Transportation Racism: New Routes to Equity dispels a major myth that conceals enduring divisions in American life. Written in recognition of activists like Ella Baker and Rosa Parks, Transportation Racism lays the groundwork for future transit rights organizers.Transportation Racism asserts that staying the current course will further polarize communities on the basis of class and color, and the powerful evidence marshaled by the authors in this anthology demands that cities and states revisit their public transportation agendas.Robert Bullard’s Dumping in Dixie and Confronting Environmental Racism were seminal works in the establishment of Environmental Justice as a movement and an academic field.. Case by case, Transportation Racism shows how—a half-century after the Montgomery bus boycotts—chronic inequality in public transportation
Michael Lewyn said worth reading but poorly edited. The basic purpose of this book is to show how our transportation funding system makes the poor (and especially racial minorities) worse off. The book is an anthology of essays, mostly case studies from various cities (including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, San Francisco and New York City).A few. "Poorly edited AND poorly researched" according to Worddancer Redux. AND poorly written.I wish I had read the other review, which was very generous.The scholarship is shallow and lazy, and the writing style is polemical.with little attention to the facts/details.It's a waste of good paper, both the stuff that it is printed on and the legal tender you have to spend to buy the bo