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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Highway Robbery : Transportation Racism and New Routes To Equity (04 Edition)by Robert D. Bullard
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Publisher Comments:Transportation Racism: New Routes to Equitydispels a major myth that conceals enduring divisions in American life. While many people view the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as the end of government-sponsored discrimination in the United States, Transportation Racism confirms the obvious and ignored truth: equality in transportation has been established in name only. Case by case, Transportation Racism shows how-a half-century after the Montgomery bus boycotts-chronic inequality in public transportation is firmly and nationally entrenched. Coast to coast, equal access to healthy, reliable, and practical transportation eludes many people, the majority of them poor people and people of color. The effects of this injustice are broad and deep. Access to transportation, public and private, determines the physical and social mobility necessary for admission to larger social, economic, and civic worlds. For millions of people, exclusion from transportation networks means drastically compromised life choices. Their jeopardized health and limited economic opportunities are then compounded by the day-to-day indignities and feelings of frustration and isolation resulting from publicly funded segregation. The authors illustrate the insidious contributions of transportation policy and urban planning to the establishment and enforcement of racial and economic inequality. Written in recognition of activists like Ella Baker and Rosa Parks, Transportation Racismlays the groundwork for future transit rights organizers. Transportation Racismasserts that staying the current course will further polarize communities on the basis of class and color, and the powerful evidence marshaled by the authors in this anthology demands that cities and states revisit their public transportation agendas. Robert Bullard's Dumping in Dixie and Confronting Environmental Racism were seminal works in the establishment of Environmental Justice as a movement and an academic field. Book News Annotation:Social scientists and activists focus on one of the many dimensions
where racism continues to take a toll in US society. Transportation
equity, they say, combines the goals of the larger environmental
justice and civil rights movements. They present case studies from
such places as Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City, and San
Francisco; discuss general themes; and identify resources for people
who want to take on the challenge.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Transportation Racism illustrates the obvious but ignored: chronic transportation inequality remains firmly entrenched a half-century after the Montgomery bus boycotts. This precedent setting text combines academic research with voices from the grassroots to expose the racism concealed within transportation planning and to establish transportation equity as a critical issue of the continued civil rights struggle. About the AuthorRobert D. Bullard is the Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. His book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality has become a standard text in the environmental justice field. Two of his other books include Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press, 1993) and Highway Robbery (South End Press, 2004). What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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