Bullard, Robert D. : Clark Atlanta University

Robert D. Bullard is a sociologist and long-time civil rights and environmental justice activist. He is professor of sociology at Clark Atlanta University, and also serves as director of the university's Environmental Justice Resource Center.

Praise for the first edition:

"No one has done more to raise and explore the question of environmental racism than Robert Bullard."

--Orion

"A valuable contribution to the literature on the hazardous waste issue and environmental movement. It raises important questions about power and effective democracy in the United States."

--Southeastern Political Review

"Bullard has torn away the veil of invisibility from the many ticking timebombs in African American and other minority communities. Dumping in Dixie thoughtfully examines one of the most important issues of the decade: the link between environmental quality and social justice. This long overdue work will rank among the most significant books of the 1990s."

--Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Former director, NAACP

"A forceful treatise that most cogently demonstrates the interplay between environmental issues and social justice concerns. His compelling analysis of racism in America and its relationship to environmental equity issues should stimulate both political discourse and a search for solutions to this most pressing problem.... Essential reading for environmentalists and policymakers."

--Bunyan Bryant, University of Michigan

"At the vanguard of a new and exciting kind of work that merges social science research and environmental sensibilities with public policy and health advocacy.... Bullard adds another important case for strengthening the regulatory and monitoring mechanisms that ultimately would save billions of taxpayer dollars."

--Troy Duster, University of California at Berkeley

"Provides valuable insight into the different processes that foster social protest.... Provocative and helpful to those who wish to investigate or replicate the process of environmental activism among the less well-connected."

--Contemporary Sociology

Perseus Books Group Web Site, March, 2000

To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country's environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.

Environmentalism and Social Justice
Race, Class, and the Politics of Place
Dispute Resolution and Toxics: Case Studies
The Environmental Justice Movement: Survey Results
Environmental Racism Revisited
Environmental Justice as a Working Model
Action Strategies for the Twenty-First Century