SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Flint Water Crisis, White Supremacy, Statute
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Environment racism: processes that result in minority and low-income communities facing disproportionate environmental harm. Lack of cars to get jobs outside of the city. Decrease property tax coming in for the city. Public act 436: color blind racism. Emergency managers: given complete control over the city without democratic institutions limiting power. Emergency managers went against recommendations and studies and manipulated results by conducting his own studies (vested interest in switching to kwa) Flint river: temporary solution, unpredictable ph levels due to pollution, water not treated properly, city used no anti-corrosion agents, bacteria, sewage, disease. Portrayed black residents as helpless victims and depicted whites as having ideas and working towards solutions. Black residents were organizing on these issues in 2013, before the media coverage began. Bonilla-silva: upholding racial structure, people of color struggling against white supremacy in institutionalized ways. Minimal competition: abundance of resources or use different resources to survive, little or no interaction.
