We know that Black and Latino communities are at greater risk of for all of these (there’s been lots of reporting to bear this out) so we know that there’s some relationship between risk and race or ethnicity, but why is that?

This week we learned quite a bit about the environmental justice movement—from the documentary A Fierce Green Fire, from the articles by Thomson and Gioielli, and from a handful of primary sources that document in different ways the disproportionate impact of environmental pollution on working class or poor people and on communities of color. We also read a recent article from the New York Times about the exposure of workers at a meat processing plant in Iowa to covid-19. These stories are all essentially about who gets put in at risk, whether that means being exposed to air pollution or lead paint or toxic waste or coronavirus. We know that Black and Latino communities are at greater risk of for all of these (there’s been lots of reporting to bear this out) so we know that there’s some relationship between risk and race or ethnicity, but why is that? What specific actions, processes, phenomena, and policy decisions are driving these disparities? Be sure to support your answer with evidence drawn from our readings for this week.Here are the sources on which the discussion post should be based on: -http://www.americanyawp.com/text/27-the-sixties/-http://www.americanyawp.com/text/28-the-unraveling/-https://fiu.instructure.com/courses/71869/files/10175842/download-https://fiu.instructure.com/courses/71869/files/10175860/download-https://www.ejnet.org/ej/swop.pdf-https://fiu.instructure.com/courses/71869/files/10175882/download-https://fiu.instructure.com/courses/71869/files/10175888/download