>JUST TRANSPORTATION
>Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility
>
>Edited by Robert D. Bullard
>& Glenn S. Johnson
>
>TRANSPORTATION ISSUES touch nearly every aspect of our lives,
>including where we live and work, and the health, education, social,
>and public service benefits we have access to. For millions of urban
>Americans, transportation barriers create profound obstacles to job
>opportunities and quality of life.
>
>From Harlem to Los Angeles, and cities in-between, Just
>Transportation reveals the distribution of transportation benefits
>to the wealthy and educated is disproportionate to people of color
>and those at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum. While the
>automobile culture has been spurred on by massive government
>investments in roads and highways, federal commitment to public
>transportation appears to have reached an all-time low, allowing
>urban mass transit systems to fall into disrepair.
>
>Essays by a wide range of environmental and transportation
>activists, lawyers, and scholars trace the historical roots of
>transportation struggles in North American civil rights history from
>Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders to modern-day unjust
>transportation practices. The dynamics of disparate incomes and
>transportation equity are examined, as well as the impact of
>transportation policy on inner city environments.
>
>This timely and important book will be of interest to anyone
>concerned with race, class, and environmental justice issues.
>
>Robert D. Bullard is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the
>Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.
>His most recent books include Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and
>Environmental Quality (Westview, 1994) which has become a standard
>text in the environmental justice field, and Unequal Protection:
>Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (Sierra Club Books,
>1994). Glenn S. Johnsonis an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a
>Research Associate in the Environmental Justice Resource Center at
>Clark Atlanta University.
>
>192 pages 6" x 9", 1997, Bibliography
>ISBN 0-86571-357-X US$15.95/CAN$18.95
>
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