The Renquist article concluded from the meta-analysis that there was a definite, but modest effect of race on environmental risk, but no effect for SES. Professor Marquez discussed a number of environmental exposure situations in which communities of color organized against, and were sometimes successful. He also talked about how it is harder to win battles because its hard to prove direct effects. Dillworth-Bart and Moore review literature on how minority children are disproportionately exposed to environmental pollutant exposure. These authors also talk about ways to research environmental exposure from a child development perspective, and involving the communities affected.
What do you take away so far of these seemingly contradictory pieces of scholarship? Are they contradictory, or do they fit together in some way? After reading the Dillworth-Bart article, discuss what you are thinking now in terms of the issue of race and environmental exposures.
