African Americans' struggle for environmental justice and the case of the Shintech Plant: Lessons learned from a war waged

TitleAfrican Americans' struggle for environmental justice and the case of the Shintech Plant: Lessons learned from a war waged
Publication TypeJournal Article
Authors
JournalJournal of Black Studies
Volume31
Issue6
Pagination777-789
ISSN0021-9347
Abstract

This study examines efforts of the St. James community to confront
the proposed location of the Shintech plant in Convent, Louisiana.
Specifically, it studies the strategies and techniques used by
the plant opponents in obstructing the construction of the Shintech
plant in a predominantly minority-populated area. Opponents of
the plant site considered the location as a racially motivated decision:
a decision that largely affected the predominant minority population
that lived around the proposed site. In examining their
efforts, the study analyzes the role that the community played in
confronting the proposed site, the organizations that joined the
fight, and governmental response to environmental racism. Hopefully,
this study will provide some insight on this small community’s
involvement in its fight against environmental racism, and
some general conclusions can be drawn on the efforts that can be
undertaken by minority communities plagued by the issue of environmental
racism.

URLhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/2668046
DOI10.1177/002193470103100605
Short TitleAfrican Americans' Struggle for Environmental Justice and the Case of the Shintech Plant
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