
Tag: environmental racism

In my recent podcast with Josiah Rector, we discussed the role of financial capital in undermining Michigan cities such as Detroit and Flint to the point that they were victims of poisonous water beca
New York is studying the impact of environmental racism and injustice in creating conditions that lead to high deaths from COVID-19. The impact should not surprise you: Communities of color that have

We don’t often think of Afro-Mexicans, but they very much exist, especially along both the Gulf and Pacific coasts. And they face significant discrimination within a quite racist Mexico. That ra
There are so many amazing social movements happening at any given time that one cannot hear about all of them. Thus I am very thankful for this Guardian piece about a hunger strike in Chicago after a

ProPublica has a critically important article linking high rates of COVID-19 with those who are already exposed to high levels of toxicity due to their race and class. Environmental racism is a well-k
The esteemed historian of slavery and capitalism Walter Johnson had a great Boston Review piece a couple of weeks ago about how the legacies of racism are going to determine who suffers the greatest i

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