Interneighborhood migration, race, and environmental hazards: Modeling microlevel processes of environmental inequality

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1110-1149

  Crowder, Kyle ^a   Downey, Liam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DANGEROUS GOODS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; POLLUTION; RACE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949514383     PISSN: 00029602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649576     Document Type: Article

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