Sociology undergraduate student, Corey Brooks (previously Madison Scull), won the 2019 Best Student Paper Award from the Center on Race and Social Problems for the paper “Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Environmental Racism, Sustainability and the Flint Water Crisis.” The paper was written in SOC 1500, “Capstone Research Practicum,” Spring, 2019, taught by Joshua Bloom.
This paper applies Bonilla-Silva’s theory of “colorblind racism” to analyze the history of Flint, Michigan leading up to the water crisis. The paper previously won the Sociology Department’s 2019 Senior Capstone Award.