Lecture to Address Racism and Pollution
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An upcoming lecture at Cal Lutheran University will offer theories on why polluting factories are sometimes found near poor neighborhoods with large numbers of minorities, rather than in the suburbs a few miles down the road.
The free lecture, titled “Environmental Racism: United States and South Africa,” will be presented by Larry Rasmussen at 10 a.m. Friday in Samuelson Chapel, 60 W. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks.
Rasmussen, the 1997 Gerhard L. Belgum Memorial Lecturer at Cal Lutheran’s Winter Break Theological Conference, has served as the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York since 1986. He previously was a professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.
An author of many books on social issues, including the recently published “Earth Community, Earth Ethics,” Rasmussen’s research on environmental racism was recently featured in “The Chronicle of Higher Education.”
Rasmussen’s lecture is sponsored by the Global Peace and Justice Committee at Cal Lutheran.
For more information, call Jae McNay in Cal Lutheran’s campus ministry at 493-3228.
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