Garbage Fell on Alabama' Environmental Justice in Lowndes County

Monica Pena

Date of Award

2006

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Hernandez, Sarah

Keywords

Environmental Justice, Waste Disposal, Rural Poverty

Area of Concentration

Social Sciences

Abstract

This thesis examines the recent and developing controversy over a landfill proposed alongside the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail in Lowndes County, Alabama, an impoverished and predominantly African-American community. In examining the controversy in relation to factors that have historically perpetuated environmental racism as well as factors that have historically supported environmental justice, this thesis suggests that the race-dynamics which influence environmental justice struggles at the community level are more intricate and complex than previously suggested in the environmental justice literature, a possibility to which environmental justice scholars are beginning to devote greater attention.

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