CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Cancer Alley, Food Security, Brownfield Land
6 Jun 2018
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Racism
Institutional of Racism
Racism is like an Iceberg
● Harassment
● Hate crimes
● Illegal discrimination
● Unequal access to resources and power
● Blame the victim
● …
● A lot of people think that if black people tried harder their lives would be better
● Some people think they’re one race but are genetically a lot of another race
DNA Testing by White Supremacists
● UCLA analyzed discussion threads on stormfront white nationalist website
○ Founded in 1990s
○ 300,000 members, 12 million posts
○ Found posts for DNA tests
○ 70 threads, 3000 individual posts, 153 people posted test results
○ Results don’t matter if you’re committed to white supremacy
○ “Oh looks like we’re diverse, we don’t need other races”
Institutional Racism
Birth of the Environmental Justice Movement: Warren County, NC
● In 1978 a waste hauler illegally dumps 30000+ gallons of waste transformer oil
contaminated with PCBs on roadways in14 NC counties
● EPA designated roadsides as superfund
The “Solution”
● Governor of NC department dumps in primarily black town
Emergence of a “New Environmentalism”
● 500+ protesters arrested
● Battle lost
● 1893 report on how black communities tend to have more dump sites
Domestic Communities Targeted
● CA waste management board asks Cerrell → says to dump in poorer neighborhoods
● Larry Summers says to dump in lower wage countries
○ Speech about women aren’t as good at science
Epilogue to Warren County
● $18 million to detoxify
Environmental Justice Since Warren County: Broadened Nationally
● Rural communities
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Document Summary
A lot of people think that if black people tried harder their lives would be better. Some people think they"re one race but are genetically a lot of another race. Ucla analyzed discussion threads on stormfront white nationalist website. 70 threads, 3000 individual posts, 153 people posted test results. Results don"t matter if you"re committed to white supremacy. Oh looks like we"re diverse, we don"t need other races . Birth of the environmental justice movement: warren county, nc. In 1978 a waste hauler illegally dumps 30000+ gallons of waste transformer oil contaminated with pcbs on roadways in14 nc counties. Governor of nc department dumps in primarily black town. 1893 report on how black communities tend to have more dump sites. Ca waste management board asks cerrell says to dump in poorer neighborhoods. Larry summers says to dump in lower wage countries. Speech about women aren"t as good at science. Jobs with physical labor, no ac in work or at home.
