About the Authors

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Robert D. Bullard, PhD, is the Edmund Asa Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. Professor Bullard is the author of 15 books. His award‐winning book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Westview Press 2000), is a standard text in the environmental justice field. Some of his other related titles include Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (MIT Press 2003); Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity (South End Press 2004); The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution (Sierra Club Books 2005); Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (MIT Press 2007); and The Black Metropolis in the Twenty‐First Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place (Rowman & Littlefield 2007). Professor Bullard is the coauthor of Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987–2007 Report (United Church of Christ Witness & Justice Ministries 2007). His most recent book is Race, Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast (Westview Press 2009). Glenn S. Johnson, PhD, is a research associate with the Environmental Justice Resource Center and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Clark Atlanta University. He coordinates several major research activities into topics including transportation racism, urban sprawl, smart growth, public involvement, facility siting, toxics, and regional equity. He is the coeditor of Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility (New Society Publishers 1997); Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta (Island Press 2000); and Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity (South End Press 2004). Johnson received his BA (1987), MA (1991), and PhD (1996) degrees in sociology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.