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The Interstate Highway System And Environmental Justice: Disproportionate Environmental Impacts On Low Income And Minority Communities, Dylan T. Katz
The Interstate Highway System And Environmental Justice: Disproportionate Environmental Impacts On Low Income And Minority Communities, Dylan T. Katz
Student Theses 2015-Present
Equity does not exist for all citizens with access to a clean, safe, and stable environment. In our present day, a number of urban populations suffer from the effects of heavy and disproportionate pollution from our major roadways and systems. Institutionalized racism and classism are pervasively linked to the development of large scale infrastructure in the United States. This thesis explores the historic roots of environmental racism through an assessment of the placement of the United States Interstate system, an infrastructural juggernaut which provided employment and an incentivized lifestyle for millions of upper class white Americans at the cost of …
Redlining The Green: Environmental Racism And Justice In The Bronx, Kelsey Vizzard
Redlining The Green: Environmental Racism And Justice In The Bronx, Kelsey Vizzard
Student Theses 2015-Present
Historically, the availability of economic, social, and political opportunities has been almost absent from marginalized communities, such as the Bronx. For reasons like race, ethnicity, and class, these geographic areas have been targeted and named as risk areas in the mid 1900s by banks and other agencies. This historic phenomenon is known as “redlining.” As a result, they received little, if any, economic, social, and political support from the government and other agencies and systems. Instead, any effort to climb the economic and social ladder was initiated by community members and organizations. As a result the community has suffered difficulties …