Bullard has done a service with this collection for those looking for information and prospects for urban and suburban African Americans in the contemporary U.S. Recommended. CHOICE Robert Bullard has assembled a rich and highly readable collection of scholarly work on the role of race in assigning where and determining how Americans live. The contributors provide trenchant analyses not only of the way limited housing access is created through loan barriers, but of the consequential vulnerability of those thereby exposed to environmental pollution. Equally importantly, the authors present useful ideas on what can and should be done to correct these very serious problems... -- Troy Duster, New York University Robert Bullard has assembled a rich and highly readable collection of scholarly work on the role of race in assigning where and determining how Americans live. The contributors provide trenchant analyses not only of the way limited housing access is created through loan barriers, but of the consequential vulnerability of those thereby exposed to environmental pollution. Equally importantly, the authors present useful ideas on what can and should be done to correct these very serious problems. -- Troy Duster, New York University