WHICH CAME FIRST, MINORITIES OR TOXICS? NEW STUDY DOCUMENTS SITING OF HAZARDS IN ESTABLISHED MINORITY NEIGHBORHOODS OF LOS ANGELES
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SANTA CRUZ, CA--Which came first, minority neighborhoods or toxic storage facilities? A new study of metropolitan Los Angeles documents that neighborhoods that were selected to house toxic storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs) were more minority, poorer, and more blue-collar than census tracts that did not receive TSDFs.
The study charts the arrival of all high-capacity TSDFs in Los Angeles County against changing neighborhood demographics over the 1970, 1980, and 1990 census surveys. Titled "Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Environmental Hazard Exposure in Metropolitan Los Angeles," the research was conducted by Manuel Pastor, a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was sponsored by the California Policy Research Center . For a copy of the report, call CPRC at (510) 642-8789.
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