Fwd: invitation to a screening (fwd)

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:23 AM +0000 2/27/01, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>--On Monday, February 26, 2001 9:01 pm -0500 "Sonja L. Lanehart"
><lanehart at ARCHES.UGA.EDU> wrote:
>
>>Is 'environmental racism' as used in the message below a new term or
>>new modification of 'racism'?  I guessed correctly what it meant
>>before I read the message, but I hadn't heard that terminology used
>>to describe it before.   --SL
>
>It goes back several years, but I can't help more than that.  Someone with
>Lexus/Nexus?

Actually, it's Lexis/Nexis, Lynne.  Your version will just locate
cites in a Henry Miller novel found while riding in a luxury sedan.
:)

The first of 890 I turned up was:
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The Washington Post

April 16, 1987, Thursday; PAGE A7

HEADLINE: Rights Group Finds Racism in Dump Siting

BYLINE: Michael Weisskopf, Washington Post Staff Writer

Commercial facilities for the disposal of toxic industrial wastes
have been concentrated in areas with relatively large minority
populations, demonstrating a pattern of "environmental racism," a
civil rights group charged yesterday. An 18-month survey by the
United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice concluded
that in deciding where to put the nation's 415 federally approved
disposal facilities, race was a "more prominent factor" than the
household income of nearby residents, the value of their homes or the
number of owner-occupied residences.
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larry