The Unintended Significance of Race: Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit

Autor/in	Downey, Liam
Titel	The Unintended Significance of Race: Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 83 (2005) 3, S.971-1007 (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
DOI	10.1353/sof.2005.0026
Schlagwörter	Race; Social Class; Racial Segregation; Residential Patterns; Ghettos; Metropolitan Areas; Whites; Racial Differences; Hazardous Materials; African Americans; Income; Racial Bias; Models; Census Figures; Pollution; Manufacturing; Proximity; Community Characteristics; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Rassentrennung; Wohnsituation; Ghetto; Ballungsraum; White; Weißer; Rassenunterschied; Hazardous substance; Gefahrstoff; Afroamerikaner; Einkommen; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Analogiemodell; Volkszählung; Schadstoffbelastung; Herstellung; Lebensnähe
Abstract	This article addresses shortcomings in the literature on environmental inequality by (a) setting forth and testing four models of environmental inequality and (b) explicitly linking environmental inequality research to spatial mismatch theory and to the debate on the declining significance of race. The explanatory models ask whether the distribution of blacks and whites around environmental hazards is the result of black/white income inequality, racist siting practices, or residential segregation. The models are tested using manufacturing facility and census data from the Detroit metropolitan area. It turns out that the distribution of blacks and whites around this region's polluting manufacturing facilities is largely the product of residential segregation which, paradoxically, has reduced black proximity to manufacturing facility pollution. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10