Robert D Bullard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Bullard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bullard |
| SIGNATURE | BULLARD R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Southern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3683-1255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 336 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Recovery and Reconstruction in Post-Katrina New Orleans
This chapter examines how Hurricane Katrina exposed the limitation of local, state, and federal government operations to implement an effective emergency preparedness and response plan. It first considers the post-Katrina reconstruction and rebuilding efforts in New Orleans and the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast region. It then analyzes the “second disaster” that occurred in New Orleans after Katrina due to racism, classism, eliti…
The Wrong Complexion for Protection
This chapter examines the government's response to toxic contamination in African American communities and the health consequences for the residents of those communities. It begins with an overview of the federal Superfund program, created in 1980 when Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), which allowed the federal government to respond to releases or potential releases of hazardous w…
Race, Place, and the Environment in a Small Southern Town
Roundtable on the Pandemics of Racism, Environmental Injustice, and Covid-19 in America
Environmental JusticeVol. 13, No. 3 RoundtableRoundtable on the Pandemics of Racism, Environmental Injustice, and COVID-19 in AmericaModerator: Sacoby M. Wilson, Participants: Robert Bullard, Jacqui Patterson, and Stephen B. ThomasModerator: Sacoby M. WilsonAddress correspondence to: Sacoby M. Wilson, 4200 Valley Drive, 2234D School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA E-mail Address: [email protected]Dr. Sacoby M…
Toxic truths
Political strategies for seeking environmental justice Introduction to Part III -Alice Mah 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups: The case of air quality monitoring in a Spanish industrial area -Miguel A
Environmentalism and Social Justice
The environmental movement in the United States emerged with agendas that focused on such areas as wilderness and wildlife preservation, resource conservation, pollution abatement, and population control. Despite the wide coverage, there is a dearth of material on the convergence of environmentalism and social justice advocacy. Social action groups that take on environmental issues as part of their agenda are often on the political Left. Environm…
Race, Class, and the Politics of Place
The General Accounting Office observed a strong relationship between the siting of offsite hazardous-waste landfills and race and socioeconomic status of surrounding communities. Unemployment and poverty were more pressing social problems for African Americans than any of the issues voiced by middle-class environmentalists. Many industrial firms, especially waste disposal companies and industries that have a long history of pollution violations, …
Environmental Justice as a Working Model
This chapter explores the environmental protection model and offers an alternative framework for addressing the needs and concerns of disenfranchised communities. Environmental justice activists have targeted disparate enforcement, compliance, and policy formulation as they affect public health decisionmaking. The impetus for changing the dominant environmental protection paradigm has not come from within regulatory agencies, the polluting indust…
Action Strategies for the Twenty-First Century
This chapter summarizes the major findings on people-of-color environmentalism and delineate some action strategies that are needed to enhance the environmental justice movement and environmentalism in the twenty-first century. Environmentalists may be concerned about clean air but may have opposing views on public transportation, highway construction, industrial-facility siting, or the construction of low-income housing in white, middle-class su…
Environmental Racism Revisited
Environmental racism combines with public policies and industry practices to provide benefits for whites while shifting industry costs to people of color. Apartheid-type housing, development, and environmental policies limit mobility, reduce neighborhood options, diminish job opportunities, and decrease choices for millions of Americans. African Americans have always constituted a sizable share of the population of southern states, where the plan…
Dispute Resolution and Toxics
Environmentalists were able to institutionalize the communication networks, influence environmental policy, shape resolution techniques, and design dispute resolution mechanisms that reached deep into their communities. The toxic-waste issue appears to be one area of agreement among local activists—black social justice advocates and white environmentalists—who would not ordinarily sit down together in the same room as "equals". Issue crystallizat…
The Environmental Justice Movement
Black environmental activism is linked to feelings of deprivation—community residents equate their condition with institutionalized discrimination. This growing sense of environmental inequity contributes to the endorsement by many black community residents of collective actions that are closely aligned with the social justice movement. Respondents from Houston&s;s Northwood Manor neighborhood and the West Dallas neighborhood rated pollution of l…
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina
"On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government …
Dumping in Dixie
Robert D. Bullard's "Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality" examines the intersection of environmental racism, social justice, and public health. The book argues that communities of color and low-income communities disproportionately bear the burden of environmental hazards, such as landfills, toxic waste sites, and industrial pollution. Bullard provides case studies from across the American South, documenting the struggles of …
The Wrong Complexion for Protection
When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. This book places the government response to natural and human-induced disasters in historical context over the past eight decades. It compares and contrasts how the government responded to emergencies, including environm…
Environmental Justice in the United States
The Wrong Complexion for Protection
When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright place the government response to natural and human-induced disasters in historical context over the past eight decades. They compare and contra…
Just Sustainabilities
Introduction: Joined-Up Thinking: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Equity * Part 1 - Some Theories and Concepts: Environmental Space, Equity and the Ecological Debt * Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and the Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Linking Sustainability and Environmental Justice * Inequality and Community and the Challenge to Modernization: Evidence from the Nuclear Oases * Part 2 - Challenges: Social Justice a…
Crisis, Crisis, Everywhere
Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States
From the "Father of Environmental Justice" comes, Environmental Health and Racial Equity, a first-rate account of events, individuals, and organizations that have shaped the environmental justice movement over the past two decades. The struggles chronicled are both instructive and inspirational to anyone who wants to make a difference
Breakthrough Communities
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs. The emerging metropolitan regional-equity movement promotes innovative policies to ensure that all communities in a metropolitan region share resources and opportunities equally. Too often, low-income communities and communities of color bear a disproportiona…
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina
Foreword, Mark H. Morial, president of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans * Introduction, Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright PART I CHALLENGES OF RACIALIZED PLACE * 1 Race, Place, and the Environment in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright * 2 The Overlooked Significance of Place in Law and Policy: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Debra Lyn Bassett * 3 Transportation Matters: Stranded on the Side …
Differential Vulnerabilities
on august 29, 2005, hurricane katrina made landfall near New Orleans, leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf coast counties. * Katrina was the most destructive hurricane in US history, costing over $70 billion in insured damage. Katrina was also one of the deadliest storms in decades, with a death toll of 1,836, and still counting. Katrina’s death toll is surpassed only by the 1928 hurricane in Florida (…
The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization. Whether…
Solid Waste Sites and the Black Houston Community
This paper presents data on the siting of solid waste facilities in one of the nation's fastest growing cities, Houston, Texas. The findings reveal that solid waste sites were not randomly scattered over the Houston landscape but were likely to be found in predominantly black neighborhoods and near black schools. Institutionalized discrimination in the housing market, lack of zoning, and decisions by public officials over the past fifty years are…
Exploring the Nexus
A paper based upon the original arguments of a book (Just Sustainabilities) by the same authors. It brings together sustainability with environmental justice and argues for an integrated approach by governments. The paper has been widely quoted as the first attempt to merge the sustainable development and environmental justice discourses
Environmentalism and Public Policy
A growing body of evidence reveals that people of color and low‐income persons have borne greater environmental and health risks than the society at large in their neighborhoods, workplace, and playgrounds. Over the last decade or so, grassroots activists have attempted to change the way government implements environmental, health, and civil rights laws. Grassroots groups have organized, educated, and empowered themselves to improve the way gover…
Dumping in Dixie
Robert D. Bullard's "Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality" examines the intersection of environmental racism, social justice, and public health. The book argues that communities of color and low-income communities disproportionately bear the burden of environmental hazards, such as landfills, toxic waste sites, and industrial pollution. Bullard provides case studies from across the American South, documenting the struggles of …
Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decisionmaking
1994). Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decisionmaking. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development: Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 10-44
The quest for environmental equity
There is considerable evidence that pollution and other forms of environmental degradation take a heavy toll on African‐American communities. African Americans, however, have not been attracted to mainstream environmental groups. Grassroots environmental groups—with their emphasis on environmental justice—have attracted a larger following within African‐American communities. The 1980s have seen the struggle for environmental equity take on a civi…
Toxic truths
Political strategies for seeking environmental justice Introduction to Part III -Alice Mah 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups: The case of air quality monitoring in a Spanish industrial area -Miguel A
Environmentalism and the Politics of Equity
The environmental movement in the United Stated emerged with agendas that focused on such areas as wilderness and wildlife preservation, resource conservation, pollution abatement, and population control, and was supported primarily by middle-and upper-middle class whites
Black Housing Patterns in a Southern Metropolis
The focus of this paper is on residential housing patterns of blacks in a sunbelt city, Houston. The migration of individuals to the city has intensifzed the competition for decent housing. The rapid population growth has also accelerated the competition between lower and middle-income residents for close-in neighborhoods of the central city. Spiraling housing costs have limited the singlejamily home market to a select few. While the overall hous…
Black Housing Patterns in a Southern Metropolis
The focus of this paper is on residential housing patterns of blacks in a sunbelt city, Houston. The migration of individuals to the city has intensifzed the competition for decent housing. The rapid population growth has also accelerated the competition between lower and middle-income residents for close-in neighborhoods of the central city. Spiraling housing costs have limited the singlejamily home market to a select few. While the overall hous…
Solid Waste Sites and the Black Houston Community
This paper presents data on the siting of solid waste facilities in one of the nation's fastest growing cities, Houston, Texas. The findings reveal that solid waste sites were not randomly scattered over the Houston landscape but were likely to be found in predominantly black neighborhoods and near black schools. Institutionalized discrimination in the housing market, lack of zoning, and decisions by public officials over the past fifty years are…
The Black Family
The housing that families require varies depending upon family life cycle. Family life cycle can be divided into seven stages: namely, (1) marriage or household formation: (2) prechild (constant size); (3) child-bearing (increasing size); (4) child-rearing (constant size); (5) child-launching (decreasing size); (6) postchild (constant size); and (7) widowhood or family dissolution. Thus, families move through stages of formation, maturation, and …
The Politics of Pollution
Environmentalism and the Politics of Equity
The environmental movement in the United Stated emerged with agendas that focused on such areas as wilderness and wildlife preservation, resource conservation, pollution abatement, and population control, and was supported primarily by middle-and upper-middle class whites
Invisible Houston
Journal Article Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust. By Robert D. Builard. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xiv + 160 pp. Cloth, $28.50; paper, $11.50.) Get access Merline Pitre Merline Pitre Texas Southern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Page 683, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888002 Published: 0…
Invisible Houston
Invisible Houston
Invisible Houston
Houston was Boomtown USA in the 1970s, growing through tremendous immigration of people and through frequent annexation of outlying areas. But in the shadow of the high-rise petropolis was another city ignored by and invisible to Houston municipal boosters and the national media. Black Houston, the largest black community in the South, remained largely untouched by the benefits of the boom but bore many of the burdens. Robert D. Bullard systemati…
Housing Barriers
While many barriers to decent and affordable housing in the United States have fallen, many Americans still do not enjoy complete freedom in selecting a place to live. Over five decades of federal housing policies, programs, and legislation have achieved mixed results in providing equal access of all Americans to decent and affordable housing. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (i.e., the Fair …
The quest for environmental equity
There is considerable evidence that pollution and other forms of environmental degradation take a heavy toll on African‐American communities. African Americans, however, have not been attracted to mainstream environmental groups. Grassroots environmental groups—with their emphasis on environmental justice—have attracted a larger following within African‐American communities. The 1980s have seen the struggle for environmental equity take on a civi…
Houston
In Search of the New South
Journal Article In Search of the New South: The Black Urban Experience in the 1970s and 1980s. Ed. by Robert D. Bullard. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. xiv + 203 pp. $26.95.) Get access David R. Colburn David R. Colburn University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 1100, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079143 Published: …
Dumping in Dixie
Environmentalism and Social Justice * Race Versus Class in Spatial Location * The Theoretical Basis of Environmental Conflict * Translating Concern into Action * Environmentalism and Civil Rights * A Note on the Research Approach * 2. Race, Class, and the Politics of Place * Consequences of Uneven Development * Endangered Environs * Growing Black Militancy * Waste-Facility Siting Disparities * 3. Dispute Resolution and Toxics: Case Studies * Defi…
Housing Problems and Prospects for Blacks in Houston
Houston was considered the premier Sunbelt city in the 1970s. Much of the growth during this boom period was fueled by the oil industry. The city led the nation in new jobs created and housing starts. The economic growth, however, was not uniformly distributed to all segments of the population—specifically, a large segment of the black community was passed over during the city's housing boom. Many of the housing problems facing black Houstonians …
In Search of the New South
Dumping in Dixie
Houston
Confronting Environmental Racism
Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decisionmaking
1994). Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decisionmaking. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development: Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 10-44
Unequal Protection
Essays contributed by participants in the 1991 First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit chronicle the struggles of communities of color from all over the U.S. and the actions needed to restore their safety and health. Editor Robert Bullard served on the Clinton Administration's environmental transition team
Confronting Environmental Racism
Dismantling Environmental Racism in the USA
A growing body of evidence reveals that people of colour and low‐income persons have borne greater environmental and health risks than the society at large in their neighbourhoods, workplaces and playgrounds. Over the past decade or so, grassroots activists have attempted to change the way government implements environmental, health and civil rights laws. A new movement has emerged in opposition to environmental racism and environmental injustice…
Environmentalism and Public Policy
A growing body of evidence reveals that people of color and low‐income persons have borne greater environmental and health risks than the society at large in their neighborhoods, workplace, and playgrounds. Over the last decade or so, grassroots activists have attempted to change the way government implements environmental, health, and civil rights laws. Grassroots groups have organized, educated, and empowered themselves to improve the way gover…
Environmental Justice in the 21st Century
Political science (36 works) · Law (29 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (22 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (18 works) · Environmental justice (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Economics (12 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · History (12 works)