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The Wrong Complexion for Protection

The Wrong Complexion for Protection

How the Government Response to Disaster

Endangers African American Communities

Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
www.nyupress.org

2012 by New York University
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bullard, Robert D. (Robert Doyle), 1946
The wrong complexion for protection : how the government response to disaster endangers African American communities / Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8147-9993-2 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8147-7193-8 (ebook)
ISBN 978-0-8147-6384-1 (ebook)
1. Disaster reliefSocial aspectsUnited States. 2. African AmericansCivil rights. 3. African AmericansSocial conditions. 4. Racism in public welfareUnited States. 5. Racism in social servicesUnited States. 6. RacismUnited States. I. Wright, Beverly, Ph. D. II. Title.
HV555.U6B846 2012
363.34808996073--dc23
2012004485

New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books.

Manufactured in the United States of America

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For my mother and father, Nehemiah and Myrtle BullardRDB

For my father and mother, Morris Bates Sr. and Evelyn Bates Justin; my brother, Morris Bates Jr.; and my uncle, Walter Smith, who survived Hurricane Katrina at age seventy-nineBW

Contents

Acknowledgments

The research for this book was made possible by support from the Ford Foundation. We would especially like to thank Michelle DePass, who, at the time we began this book project, was program officer at the Ford Foundation, for her support for our work before and after Hurricane Katrina. Many individuals at our host institutions also provided valuable support for our research efforts. We owe a debt of gratitude to staff members from our respective centers, the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University (Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres) and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University (Celeste Cooper and Myra Lewis) for their assistance in researching and documenting the case studies, retrieving archival materials, fact checking, editing and proofing, and typing the manuscript.

With apologies to anyone we may have left out, we also would like to acknowledge the extraordinary work being performed in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. We would also like to give special thanks to William Lucy, president of the Conference of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), and to representatives from the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN) and its affiliate organizations for their encouragement, comments, suggestions, and recommendations over the four years that this book project has been under way: Elodia Blanco, Bunyan Bryant, Damu Smith (now deceased), Donele Wilkins, Monique Harden, Leslies Fields, Charlotte Keys, Vernice Miller-Travis, Felicia Eaves, Peggy Shepard, Cecil Corbin-Mark, Lula Odom, Yolanda Sinde, Robin Cannon, Hazel Johnson (now deceased), Henry Clark, and Michael Lythcott. The authors, of course, assume full responsibility for the books content.

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

ABC	American Beryllium Company
ABPsi	Association of Black Psychologists
ACLU	American Civil Liberties Union
ACORN	Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ADEM	Alabama Department of Environmental Management
AELOS	Agricultural Economics and Land Ownership Survey
AIG	American International Group
ARC	Atlanta Regional Commission
ATSDR	Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
BFI	Browning Ferris Industries
BP	British Petroleum
BW	Biological Weapons
CAB	Community Advisory Board
CAFOs	Confined Animal Feeding Operations
CATE	Citizens Against Toxic Exposure
CARAT	Community Action and Response Against Toxics
C&D	Construction and Demolition
CBCF	Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
CBTU	Conference of Black Trade Unionists
CDBG	Community Development Block Grant
CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDHS	California Department of Health Services
CERCLA	Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
CEQ	Commission of Environmental Quality (Texas)
CHDP	Child Health and Disability Prevention
CHEERS	Childrens Environmental Exposure Research Study
CAA	Clean Air Act
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
COE	Corps of Engineers
CNN	Cable News Network
CRA	Community Reinvestment Act
CWA	Clean Water Act
DDT	Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane
DENR	Department of Environment and Natural Resources
DHS	Department of Homeland Security
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