Beverly J Wright

Oh, How You Make My Heart Sing!: A Heartfelt Story of Adoption

Mama Kitten is faced with the dilema of putting her unborn child up for adoption but wants to be certain that he will go to a special home, a place where he will make hearts sing. After much prayer, an answer comes. She will talk with her friend, Sadie Schnauzer, a childless Christian woman who has ...

The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public ...

Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions

In "Environmental Justice," leading thinkers of the environmental justice movement take a direct look at the failure of "top down" public policy to effectively deal with issues of environmental equity.The book provides a startling look at pressing social and environmental problems and charts a cours...

The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities

When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert D. Bullard and Beverl...

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions ...

The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public ...

A Pictorial History of Belvedere 1890 - 1990 a California Island Town