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In Celebration of the Life of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Tuesday, January 27th
4:30pm, Memorial Chapel
Keynote Address by:
Dr.
Robert D. Bullard
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard is
the Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the
Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. Prior to
joining the faculty at CAU in 1994, he served as a professor of sociology at
the University of California, Riverside, as well as visiting professor in
Center for Afro-American Studies at UCLA. His scholarship has distinguished
him as one of the leading experts on environmental justice and race and the
environment. He is one of the planners of the First and Second National
People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. Dr. Bullard served on
President Clinton’s Transition Team in the Natural Resources and Environment
Cluster (Department of Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Environmental
Protection Agency). He served on the U.S. EPA National Environment Justice
Advisory Council (NEJAC) where he chaired the Health and Research
Subcommittee.
Professor Bullard has
testified and served as an expert witness in dozens of civil rights cases
over the past decade. He is the author of fourteen books that address
environmental justice, environmental racism, urban land use, facility
permitting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, suburban
sprawl, and smart growth. His book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and
Environmental Quality (Westview Press, 2000), is a standard text
in the environmental justice field. His most recent books include Just
Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (MIT Press, 2003),
Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity (South
End Press, 2004), The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and
the Politics of Pollution (Sierra Club Books, 2005), Growing
Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional
Equity (MIT Press, 2007), and The Black Metropolis in the
Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2007). Professor Bullard is the co-author of Toxic Wastes
and Race at Twenty, 1987-2007 (United Church of Christ, 2007). In July
2007, he was featured in CNN “People You Should Know.” |
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