Environmental Racism Research

It entails the likelihood of being exposed to any environmental hazards and unproportioned environmental processes and negative impacts to the environmental policies being enacted. Environmental racism became very clear at a conference in Michigan University at the school of natural resources when scholars wanted to understand the relationship between race and environment and further led to environmental justice that had been used to ensure equal treatments of people in various environments without taking into consideration their race and gender. Environmental racism arises from three essential elements that are the prejudicial notion and conduct, private and institutional power that is used to enact rules that generally tend to reflect the prejudices of a person and further the unfair practices over the others as well as the ability to make one group more successful than the other.

Difference rate of clean up tends to leave some of the surrounding clean while other areas cleaned and therefore exposing some individuals to dangers while other are in safe surroundings. In this case, there will be individuals who tend to be affected by illnesses due to dirty exposures in their surrounding as well as toxic wastes. They also called for the termination of lead poisoning within the inner city children and landfills as well as the polluting of industrial complexes among others. The environmental activists as well demanded the cleanup of certain communities such as Alabama, Triana that were exposed to extreme interaction with dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane. They also organized proper monitoring of Alabama landfill which was the largest commercial landfill in the United States.

The campaign further led to questioning of the fact that nuclear waste dumps were often placed at the reservations of the Native Americans. This was the time that a number of activists, as well as professionals, began to link the interconnectedness between race and the dangers of the environment. Corrective and distributive justice had been focused by the early campaigns for environmental justice to understand the costs and benefits as well as the common way that people were treated in the course of the social transaction. The organization helped in the realization of the past racial injustices as well as opportunities in order to remedy the problem in the future. These movements as well had been able to describe justice in relation to the corporate worker society’s interactions with the government and the relations between local communities (Taylor, 550).