Question

Josh sits in his kitchen in the city projects trying to sip his coffee while inhaling the nauseating fumes wafting from the town dump that was relocated to within a mile of his home. he desperately wishes he could move, but he works two jobs just to make ends meet for his family. josh lives in the poorer part of town; the part that is greatly overlooked by local government officials. what might a sociologist call this phenomenon ? white flight gentrification environmental racism urbanization

Answer 1

The appropriate response is environmental racism. This refers to socially underestimated racial minority groups which are subjected to unbalanced presentation of toxins, the disavowal of access to wellsprings of environmental advantages, (for example, clean air, water, and characteristic assets), or both.