Black Oppression is Environmental Injustice

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

25 Feb 2020

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The definition of environmental racism must be broadened to include such phenomena as the ghettoization of Black people, which “deteriorates the landscape that Black children grow up in,” said Willie Wright, professor of geography and African American Studies at Rutgers University. Prof. Wright wote an article for the radical geography journal Antipode, titled “As Above, So Below: Anti-Black Violence as Environmental Racism.”

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