Confronting Environmental Racism Among African American ...

Hazardous waste landfills are not the only form of environmental racism seen today. According to the United States Census Bureau, the poverty rate for blacks in 2016 was 22.0 percent. When compared to the 8.8 percent poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites, obvious health disparities exist (Semega, Fontenot, and Kollar, 2017). ................
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