Bullard, director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, has written a dozen books about environmental health in America, including his 1990 classic Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality. Because of his analyses, we first learned that race, not income, is the single most important factor in the siting of many sources of brain-harming environmental exposures, a revelation which spurred development of the environmental justice movement. “African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000 live in neighborhoods that are more
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