environmental racism
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environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context both in practice and policy.
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Vinony's link graph records 1,471 inbound references to environmental racism, and connects out to anti-Romanyism, United States Government Accountability Office and New York University Press.
It is catalogued under topics including Apartheid, Definition of racism controversy and Environmental controversies.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- concept
- Subclass of
- institutional racism
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- WikiProject Climate change
- named by
- Benjamin Chavis
- has cause
- poverty
- has contributing factor
- gentrification
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Encyclopedic overview
People protesting the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, which disproportionately affected people of color and low-income communities
Environmental racism, ecological racism, or ecological apartheid is a hypothesized form of racism leading to negative environmental outcomes such as landfills, incinerators, and hazardous waste disposal disproportionately impacting communities of color, violating substantive equality. Internationally, it is also associated with extractivism, which places the environmental burdens of mining, oil extraction, and industrial agriculture upon indigenous peoples and poorer nations largely inhabited by people of color.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “environmental racism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.