LECTURE SERIES
“Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity”
Ware Professor of Sociology
Director of the Environmental Justice Resource
Center at Clark Atlanta University
Tuesday, Feb. 14th, 2006
11:00 am - Noon (snacks provided)
College of Engineering
High Technology Classroom
Free Admission
Robert D. Bullard , Ph.D., is the Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University . Professor Bullard will be presenting his latest research and his latest book Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity. He is the nation's leading authority on race and the environment, serving as an expert witness and testifying on dozens of civil rights and environmental justice lawsuits and hearings. He is the author of twelve books that address environmental justice, community health, urban land use, industrial facility permitting, neighborhood reinvestment, housing, transportation, suburban sprawl and smart growth. His award winning book, Dumping in Dixie : Race, Class and Environmental Quality (Westview Press, 2000), is a standard text in the environmental justice field. A few of his other books include Sprawl City : Race, Politics and Planning in Atlanta (Island Press, 2000), Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (MIT Press, 2003) and The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution (Sierra Club Books, 2005). He is completing work on two new books: Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity (MIT Press, forthcoming, 2006) and The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century (Rowan & Littlefield, forthcoming, 2006).
For more information contact: Center for Social Research at 225.771.4717 or william_hawn@subr.edu
The event was funded by the Ford Foundation.