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environmental racism

environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context both in practice and policy.
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environmental racism

Summary

environmental racism is a concept[1]. It draws 523 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #231 of 912).[2]

Key Facts

  • environmental racism's instance of is recorded as concept[3].
  • environmental racism is a type of racism[4].
  • environmental racism is a type of institutional racism[5].
  • environmental racism's has cause is recorded as poverty[6].
  • environmental racism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Environmental racism[7].
  • environmental racism's has contributing factor is recorded as suburbanization[8].
  • environmental racism's has contributing factor is recorded as gentrification[9].
  • environmental racism's named by is recorded as Benjamin Chavis[10].
  • environmental racism's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[11].

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Definition and Type

environmental racism's instance of is recorded as concept[3]. Recorded subclass of include racism[4] and institutional racism[5].

Why It Matters

environmental racism draws 523 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #231 of 912).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has contributing factor → suburbanization, gentrification
    Named by → Benjamin Chavis
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → racism, institutional racism
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987012575197805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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