Long Lives Memphis But Not the Residents: Battle for Environmental Justice by Kimberly PadillaSite Description: It all started when Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a faulty truck in Memphis, Tennessee on February 11, 1968. From that day on, the...
Zoning Barriers
Zoning Barriers: An Industrial Revolutions in Ironbound Led by Immigrants Now they are the Most Vulnerable by Ruben E. IzurietaSite Description: In the 1800s, the industrial boom in Newark was led by the first wave of Irish immigrants that moved to this city,...
Community Garden?
Community Garden? Skepticism of Common Culture in Garden State Suburbia by Gabriella GambinoSite Description: The Community Garden of the South Branch Preserve lies on Wolfe Road in Hackettstown, New Jersey and is an extension of the Raritan River’s North Branch...
1994 Northridge Earthquake
The 1994 Northridge Earthquake Aftermath: Segregation of Media Coverage and Recovery Aid against Latino Communities in San Fernando Valley by Masahiro FukuraSite Description: The 1994 Northridge Earthquake was a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that shook the region of San...
A healthy lifestyle in a toxic environment
A healthy lifestyle in a toxic environment: The Laotian community of Richmond, CA in the late 90s and early 2000s by Luis Alfredo ChiangSite Description: I am Luis Alfredo Chiang, a student at NJIT. I chose to work on this project for two reasons. The first reason is...
Apache Firefighters
Fire as Colonization: How Conflicts over Fire Management Reveal Ongoing Colonization of Southwest Native People from 1984-1996 by Esperanza SantosSite Description: Fire management is an environmental justice issue for Native communities. Historically, fire...
Mbye Otabenga
Mbye Otabenga: Animality and the Environmental Politics Human Zoos, 1904-1906 by Christelle JasminSite Description: This project locates the animalization of Mbye Otabenga’s blackness, via the his exhibition at the St Louis World’s Fair and the Bronx Zoo from...
American Dream Mall
American Dream Mall: Bergen County’s Future Environmental Injustice Nightmare by Alexandra VidalSite Description: After almost 20 years after its inception, in October 2020 the American Dream Mall, the second-largest shopping center in the United States, finally...
Detention Center
Detention Center’s contribution to environmental Injustice: How the built environment perpetuates racial oppression by Baïna-Lyssa JeanSite Description: Although climate change affects every countries, the imminent devastating effects are highly felt by third world...
Change Over Time
Change Over Time: The Polluted Perimeter of The Newark Bay and it’s Environmental Injustice Effects by Alexandra DePaloSite Description: The Newark Bay is at the junction of where the Hackensack and Passaic rivers meet. It is around 5.5 miles long and is on the west...