By Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) There is a conventional wisdom about the 1960s that most writers and commentators follow. The story line is this: we came close, very close, to solving America’s racial dilemma completely in the mid-sixties, until a number of factors stalled our progress and undermined the consensus. … [Read more...] about “By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race” by Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
Symposium Responses
“Is Racial Integration Essential to Achieving Quality Education for Low-Income Minority Students, In the Short Term? In the Long Term?” by john powell (September-October 1996 P&R Issue)
By john powell (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) My schooling gave me no training as the oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, or a person in a damaged culture. . . At school, we were no, taught about slavery in any depth; we were not taught to see slave holders as damaged people. Slaves were seen as the only group at risk of being dehumanized My schooling … [Read more...] about “Is Racial Integration Essential to Achieving Quality Education for Low-Income Minority Students, In the Short Term? In the Long Term?” by john powell (September-October 1996 P&R Issue)
“Determining the Disproportionate Impacts from Pollution Sources” by Stuart Batterman and Yu-Ling Huang (July-August 1996 P&R Issue)
By Stuart Batterman and Yu-Ling Huang (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This article explores how to determine whether disproportionate impacts have occurred or are likely to occur from facilities handling or emitting hazardous substances. It emphasizes the use of risk assessment and other technical assessment techniques in these determinations. A number of … [Read more...] about “Determining the Disproportionate Impacts from Pollution Sources” by Stuart Batterman and Yu-Ling Huang (July-August 1996 P&R Issue)
“Key Research and Policy Issues Facing Environmental Justice” by Bunyan Bryant
By Bunyan Bryant (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Environmental justice refers to those cultural norms, values, rules, regulations, behaviors, policies and decisions that support sustainable communities, where people can interact with confidence that their environment is safe, nurturing and productive. Environmental justice is served when people can realize … [Read more...] about “Key Research and Policy Issues Facing Environmental Justice” by Bunyan Bryant
“The Truth Won’t Set You Free (But It Might Make the Evening News): The Use of Demographic Information in Struggles for Envirnmental Justice in California” by Luke W. Cole (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Luke W. Cole (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) One of the great myths of white America is that the truth will set you free. What I mean by this is that simply being right, or having the truth on your side, does not mean you will win a particular struggle. The struggles communities fighting dangerous and unwanted facilities have been undertaking across the … [Read more...] about “The Truth Won’t Set You Free (But It Might Make the Evening News): The Use of Demographic Information in Struggles for Envirnmental Justice in California” by Luke W. Cole (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
