When Environmental Inequality Racialized: Historical Evidence from Providence, Rhode Island

The authors use multiple logistic regression techniques to investigate whether individuals’ occupation, nativity, race, and ethnicity predict residential proximity to large-scale energy infrastructure in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1880 and 1930. Results indicate that in 1880, environmental risks a...

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Main Authors: Scott Frickel, Jonathan Tollefson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-09-01
Series:Socius
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231221127541