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Essay Instructions: PART 1 (3 pages) Based on assigned reading and Marjora Carter's lecture, what are some of the consequences of environmental racism? Using the tools you've developed in this course, discuss at least three ways we can combat environmental racism

Part 2 (1 page)
Based on the following readings :

1) What, according to environmental advocates, is environmental racism.

2) Do you believe they are correct to be concerned about this problem?
a) if so, what legal strategies do you feel can be used to curb environmental racism.
b) if not, what arguments would you pose against those who urge legal action to curb environmental racism?

Bullard, "Dumping in Dixie" found at
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/docs/010-278/010-278chpt1.html
and
The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin
by Arundhati Roy found at http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0307-03.htm
and
Majora Carter, "Greening the Ghetto"
Found at www.ted.com/index.php/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of_urban_renewal.html or

Essay Instructions: 1. Discuss the apparent reluctance of auto manufacturers to put consumer safety ahead of profits.

2. What is "environmental racism"? What about minority/economically disadvantaged populations encourages or allows this situation? How is environmental racism relevant to white-collar crime?

1 page each question citing 2 sources for each.

Essay Instructions: write a book reveiw on one of the following list of books

1 identity and difference: sage publications. 1997 by kathryn woodward (ED)

2 from the ground up: environmental racism and the rise of environmental justice movement ny: ny university press. 2001 by luke n cole and sheila r foster.

3 the white minority. california. multiculturalism and american future. ny: viintage books. 1999 by dale maharidge

4 pop internationalism. cambridge. ma & london: mit press 1998 by paul krugman

5 popular culture: an introduction. ny and london: ny university 1999 by carla freccero.

6 race: the history of an idea in the west, baltimore: the johns hopkins university press. 1996 by ivan hannaford.

7 culture and equality: an equalitarian critique of multiculturalism cambridge, ma: harvard university press. by brian barry

8 racist america: roots, reparations and future reparations. ny: routledge. 2000 by joe r feagin.

9 governing race: politics. process and the polics of race westport, cn: praeger publisher. 2000 by nina m moore.

10 the force of prejudece on racism and its doubles. minneapolis and london: university of minneapolis press 2001 by pierre-andre taguieff