Environmental Justice

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Williams, Robert W. "The Contested Terrain of Environmental Justice Research: Community as Unit of Analysis." The Social Science Journal 36, no. 2` (1999): 313-28.

 Environmental justice research sparked a comparison to a project of windy ridge neighborhood. The readings had many parallel stories to that area, My understanding is if these lands are being zoned to house the poor as they are not important, where are the planners, and what have they been doing. My understanding was very confused by the reading but I believe in Environmental Justice as seeing from urban perspective living in Chicago for four years, Neighborhoods in south side being affected by zoning where factories were changing zoning displacing the poor to west side. However census data was affected by that as more people were being displaced, that the zip codes were used to get a broader perspective. I hate the word “gentrification” because in reality it moves the poor out without helping them. The term discrimination will pop into the problem, causing issues. Terminology is an issue at play here, for example I do not understand the purpose of “white, black,” is the census not politically correct or discrimination is at play?