Environmental Racism
Although America will continue to diversify, little change will occur to the negative highlighting aspects of America. The wide gap between the socio-economic classes will remain, as well as new, often demeaning; stereotypes and prejudices will be arise. In addition to the inequality within the social and economic infrastructure, a commonly overlooked social problem is environmental racism. Environmental racism is classified as the discriminatory placement of people where they are subject to environmental injustices. In environmental racism, low income or minority-centralized communities are focused within areas detrimental to the health and social wellbeing of the people. Environmental racism provides obstacles to the …show more content…
Social stratification allows for the ranking of people within social groups, thus allowing for major differences between the classes. Due to the oppressive historical periods of America, which provided long-running implications of the ethnic group, social stratification is heavily linked to minority groups populating the lower spectrum of the social rank. One key component of social stratification is that the higher-ranking social groups receive deference of the ranks below them. Within environmental racism deference can take the form of housing and location of housing. This in itself provides opportunity for exploitation. Often housing of the lower tier social class suffer from infrastructural problems that can lead to serious health implications. An example of this is the inadequate removal of trash, which leads to an increase in rodent activity that allows for a greater chance of the transmission of rodent borne diseases. In addition to deference social stratification also fuels the unequal distribution of …show more content…
The situation centered around the construction of pipeline that runs through the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, and Iowa. Aside from the unexplored environmental damages the creation of the DAPL will bring about, deeper examination of the pipeline proves this is another example of injustice. In the early stages of the DAPL initial schematics did not originally run through the Lake Oahe. A previous schematic showed that the DAPL was originally intended to run underneath the Missouri River. This was planed until the Bismarck region, a dominantly white region, protested due to the fear that the DAPL would provide implication on the regions only water source. The expressed power by the white protesters influenced the redirection of the DAPL. Therefore, a new course for DAPL was made. The new intended path for DAPL runs underneath Lake Oahe, the water source for the Sioux Reservation known as Standing Rock. As a result the Native Americans that rely on Lake Oahe as a water source are currently protesting in hopes to provide another redirection of the DAPL. In spite of the peaceful protesting, the national attention, and the overwhelming support against this example of environmental racism, there have been efforts to quiet the protesters through the use of water hoes and force. The people of the lower social class, the Native Americans of the Standing Rock
Although America will continue to diversify, little change will occur to the negative highlighting aspects of America. The wide gap between the socio-economic classes will remain, as well as new, often demeaning; stereotypes and prejudices will be arise. In addition to the inequality within the social and economic infrastructure, a commonly overlooked social problem is environmental racism. Environmental racism is classified as the discriminatory placement of people where they are subject to environmental injustices. In environmental racism, low income or minority-centralized communities are focused within areas detrimental to the health and social wellbeing of the people. Environmental racism provides obstacles to the …show more content…
Social stratification allows for the ranking of people within social groups, thus allowing for major differences between the classes. Due to the oppressive historical periods of America, which provided long-running implications of the ethnic group, social stratification is heavily linked to minority groups populating the lower spectrum of the social rank. One key component of social stratification is that the higher-ranking social groups receive deference of the ranks below them. Within environmental racism deference can take the form of housing and location of housing. This in itself provides opportunity for exploitation. Often housing of the lower tier social class suffer from infrastructural problems that can lead to serious health implications. An example of this is the inadequate removal of trash, which leads to an increase in rodent activity that allows for a greater chance of the transmission of rodent borne diseases. In addition to deference social stratification also fuels the unequal distribution of …show more content…
The situation centered around the construction of pipeline that runs through the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, and Iowa. Aside from the unexplored environmental damages the creation of the DAPL will bring about, deeper examination of the pipeline proves this is another example of injustice. In the early stages of the DAPL initial schematics did not originally run through the Lake Oahe. A previous schematic showed that the DAPL was originally intended to run underneath the Missouri River. This was planed until the Bismarck region, a dominantly white region, protested due to the fear that the DAPL would provide implication on the regions only water source. The expressed power by the white protesters influenced the redirection of the DAPL. Therefore, a new course for DAPL was made. The new intended path for DAPL runs underneath Lake Oahe, the water source for the Sioux Reservation known as Standing Rock. As a result the Native Americans that rely on Lake Oahe as a water source are currently protesting in hopes to provide another redirection of the DAPL. In spite of the peaceful protesting, the national attention, and the overwhelming support against this example of environmental racism, there have been efforts to quiet the protesters through the use of water hoes and force. The people of the lower social class, the Native Americans of the Standing Rock