Dr. Robert D. Bullard, often described as the “Father of Environmental Justice,” is distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University in Houston. He was selected to give the 2018 Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church Kilgore Lecture. The lecture will be held at the church, 1900 Bering Drive in Houston, on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Admission and parking are free.
Professor Bullard will speak on “The Quest for Environmental Justice: Why Place Matters, and So Does Race.” He is a prolific scholar, writing some 18 books, including Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust (Texas A&M University Press), Race, Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast (Westview Press), and The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities (NYU Press). He has extended his field of research to include climate change, community resilience, just sustainability and just disaster recovery. Bullard’s recent environmental justice research, policy and community engagement work asks the question, “will government response to climate change and national disasters be fair or will it follow the historic and dominant response of money following money, money following power and money following whites.” This past September he was named one of 22 Climate Trailblazes worldwide. For more information on his 2018 Kilgore Lecture click HERE.
Professor Bullard will speak on “The Quest for Environmental Justice: Why Place Matters, and So Does Race.” He is a prolific scholar, writing some 18 books, including Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust (Texas A&M University Press), Race, Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast (Westview Press), and The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities (NYU Press). He has extended his field of research to include climate change, community resilience, just sustainability and just disaster recovery. Bullard’s recent environmental justice research, policy and community engagement work asks the question, “will government response to climate change and national disasters be fair or will it follow the historic and dominant response of money following money, money following power and money following whites.” This past September he was named one of 22 Climate Trailblazes worldwide. For more information on his 2018 Kilgore Lecture click HERE.
