On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and the Environment, broken down into the following sections:
Key Words for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Environmental Justice: Air Quality, Air Particulate Matter, Black Geographies, Climate Migration, Climate Refugee, Colonized Territories, Communities of Color, Community Design, Contamination, Denial of Green Space, Disenfranchisement, Dispossession, Eco-Ableism, Environmental Racism, Environmental Policy, Expropriation, Food Deserts, Food Gentrification, Gentrification, Geographies of Race and Ethnicity, Geospatial Policing, Green Racism, Hazardous Working Conditions, Industrial Dumping Inequity, Lead Contamination, Low-Income Communities, Land Reparations, Land Theft, LULU (locally undesirable land uses), Maternity Deserts, NIMBY, Public Safety, Racialized Space, Racist Monuments, Redlining, Residential Segregation, Sacrifice Zones, Slow Violence, Spatialized Blackness, Toxic Burden, Treaty Rights, Tribal Sovereignty, Urban Development, Water Protectors, White Flight
Source: AJ+ (2016, January 29). What Is Environmental Racism? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrbeuJRPM0o
Source: PBS. (2020, April 13). ‘Irresponsible and Wrong’: Smokestack Demolition Fallout. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/video/irresponsible-and-wrong-smokestack-demolition-fallout-fa8btk/
Source: ABC News. (2018, October 17). Being black in America: When performing everyday activities triggers 911 calls. YouTube. https://youtu.be/yTYGgl4MTk4
Source: AJ+ (2020, October 9). Why It’s Time To Give Native Americans Their Land Back. YouTube. https://youtu.be/8fX3jh8tRxA
Source: CNBC. (2020, August 22). Why Grocery Stores Are Avoiding Black Neighborhoods. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Rd8J-9uUnfc
Source: Newsy. (2019, May 20). Maternity Deserts.YouTube. https://youtu.be/gaQIOfzifvA
Source: Vice. (2020, September 25). What Really Happened at Standing Rock | I Was There. YouTube. https://youtu.be/J1yD2J8vHAk
Source: NowThis News. (2020, January 19). Why All Americans Should Care About 'Environmental Racism.' YouTube. https://youtu.be/CeNqlqFLW8A
Source: Build Series. (2017, March 10). Elizabeth Yeampierre On The Importance Of Activism To Combat Climate Change. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3s8MGV67gM
Source: AJ+ (2018, August 25). Why This Town is Dying From Cancer. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8CbDG7gpk
Source: Hot Mess. (2018, May 3). Why Climate Change is Anti-Justice. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Q5KjpYK12_c
Source: Vice News. (2015, March 18). Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation. YouTube. https://youtu.be/F4uGCj6knVw
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Episode: Climate Change is a Racial Justice Issue
Episode: Environmental Racism in St. Louis Report
Episode: Black in Place
Episode:Environmental Racism: A Hidden Threat
Episode: Public Land is Stolen Land
A podcast about how and why gentrification happens.
Episode: The Toxic Burden
Episode: Farming While Black
Episode: Corporate Counterinsurgency Against Line 3 Pipeline Resistance
Episode: Environmental Racism is Real
Episode: Climate Change and Environmental Racism
Episode: Stealing the Children to Steal the Land
. Episode: Eco-Ableism
This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards.
Floodlines is an audio documentary about Hurricane Katrina and the people who lived through it.
Oklahoma journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation, Rebecca Nagle, traces how a cut and dry homicide opened up an investigation into the treaty rights of five Native American tribes.
