Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice [Hardcover]

Racial minorities in the United States are disproportionately exposed to toxic wastes and other environmental hazards, and cleanup efforts in their communities are slower and less thorough than efforts elsewhere. Internationally, wealthy countries of the North increasingly ship hazardous wastes to poorer countries of the South, resulting in such tragedies as the disaster at Bhopal. Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news,Faces of Environmental Racismexposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South.

Laura Westrais professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Windsor and the author or editor of numerous books, includingAn Environmental Proposal for Ethics(Rowman & Littlefield, 1994),Faces of Environmental Racism(Rowman & Littlefield, 1995),Perspectives on Ecological Integrity(Kluwer),The Greeks and the Environment(Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) andTechnology and Values(Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).Bill Lawsonis professor of philosophy at Michigan State University.
Peter S. Wenzis professor of philosophy and legal studies at Sangamon State University.

A compelling collection . . . [on] a global issue that demands our immediate attention. Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Blues Legend and Black Feminism

This wide-ranging collection of essays . . . is vivid and rigorous. Bernard Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Westra and Wenz have provided an invaluable and long overdue anthology in which all essays . . . provide insights not available elsewhere.Facesis accessible, yet challenging, and shoulã"