Beverly Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3676-6510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Environmental Justice Data Action Portal
Our goal is simple but powerful to ensure that the communities most impacted by pollution finally have access to the environmental data that affects their lives. This tool will support community-driven solutions to harmful environmental conditions and severe climate risks. This portal is the first of its kind to be built on the recommendations of environmental justice communities
The Communiversity Model
Community-engaged research, often produced by community–academic partnerships, is a critical tool used by environmental justice communities to achieve policy action. The Communiversity Model, developed by Dr. Beverly Wright, is a theoretical framework and intervention strategy that collects data and fosters progress toward environmental justice simultaneously and has been in use in Gulf Coast communities since the 1990s. This research draws on a …
A Question of Human Rights
The paper describes, in historical and international perspective, the ongoing struggles of several communities in Louisiana and South Africa whose environment and public health have been damaged by the operations of the same transnational corporations. Previous research has tended to assess environmental injustice one community at a time. Missing from past research is an international perspective which exposes the ties between communities that ho…
Growing Up in a City That Care Forgot, New Orleans
In this chapter, the author shares her personal experience of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In her experience of growing up in New Orleans, the author says the word “hurricane” was synonymous with heavy rain and a party. As she grew into adulthood, the hurricanes seemed to increase in intensity, leaving more and more water, more and more often. She reflects on Hurricane Betsy, which hit New Orleans in 1965, and the federal government's appare…
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 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 …
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…
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…
Race, Place, and the Environment in the Aftermath of Katrina
Unpreparedness, inadequate policies, and racial politics have greatly influenced the ability of New Orleans residents to recover from Hurricane Katrina. This paper examines the impact of race, place, and the environment on the unequal distribution of recovery resources for African American communities in the city of New Orleans. The extent to which we are able to understand this impact of institutionalized racism that presents structural biases f…
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 …
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…
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
The Politics of Pollution
The effects of racial self-esteem on the personal self-esteem of black youth
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…
The effects of racial self-esteem on the personal self-esteem of black youth
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
A Question of Human Rights
The paper describes, in historical and international perspective, the ongoing struggles of several communities in Louisiana and South Africa whose environment and public health have been damaged by the operations of the same transnational corporations. Previous research has tended to assess environmental injustice one community at a time. Missing from past research is an international perspective which exposes the ties between communities that ho…
The effects of racial self-esteem on the personal self-esteem of black youth
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
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…
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 …
Race, Place, and the Environment in the Aftermath of Katrina
Unpreparedness, inadequate policies, and racial politics have greatly influenced the ability of New Orleans residents to recover from Hurricane Katrina. This paper examines the impact of race, place, and the environment on the unequal distribution of recovery resources for African American communities in the city of New Orleans. The extent to which we are able to understand this impact of institutionalized racism that presents structural biases f…
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…
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…
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 …
Growing Up in a City That Care Forgot, New Orleans
In this chapter, the author shares her personal experience of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In her experience of growing up in New Orleans, the author says the word “hurricane” was synonymous with heavy rain and a party. As she grew into adulthood, the hurricanes seemed to increase in intensity, leaving more and more water, more and more often. She reflects on Hurricane Betsy, which hit New Orleans in 1965, and the federal government's appare…
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…
A Question of Human Rights
The paper describes, in historical and international perspective, the ongoing struggles of several communities in Louisiana and South Africa whose environment and public health have been damaged by the operations of the same transnational corporations. Previous research has tended to assess environmental injustice one community at a time. Missing from past research is an international perspective which exposes the ties between communities that ho…
The Communiversity Model
Community-engaged research, often produced by community–academic partnerships, is a critical tool used by environmental justice communities to achieve policy action. The Communiversity Model, developed by Dr. Beverly Wright, is a theoretical framework and intervention strategy that collects data and fosters progress toward environmental justice simultaneously and has been in use in Gulf Coast communities since the 1990s. This research draws on a …
Environmental Justice Data Action Portal
Our goal is simple but powerful to ensure that the communities most impacted by pollution finally have access to the environmental data that affects their lives. This tool will support community-driven solutions to harmful environmental conditions and severe climate risks. This portal is the first of its kind to be built on the recommendations of environmental justice communities
Political science (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (8 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Environmental justice (6 works) · Natural disaster (6 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Government (linguistics) (5 works)