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Examining Linkages between Race, Environmental Concern, Health, and Justice in a Highly Polluted Community of Color

Robert Emmet Jones

University of Tennessee, mountain{at}utk.edu

Shirley A. Rainey

Austin Peay State University

Currently, there is a limited amount of research on Black attitudes toward the environment. Moreover, possible linkages between race, environmental attitudes, and perceptions about environmental health and justice have not been examined in the United States. This study contributes to this literature by assessing several of these linkages using data obtained from a survey of 247 residents living in or around a highly polluted community of color. It found that public perceptions about environmental health problems and environmental justice were significantly linked to race and public concern for local environmental problems. Blacks are more likely than Whites to believe they are being exposed to poorer environmental conditions, suffer more related health problems, and think that local public agencies and officials have not dealt with environmental problems in their neighborhood in a just, equitable, and effective manner.

Key Words: race • environmental concern • health and justice

Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36, No. 4, 473-496 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0021934705280411
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