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environmental racism

environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context both in practice and policy.
Class type of: racism, institutional racism Q2491965

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
concept
Subclass of
racism, institutional racism[2][3]
Facet of
racial capitalism[5]
Handled, mitigated, or managed by
climate justice, environmental justice[13][14]
Has cause
poverty[4]
Has contributing factor
suburbanization, gentrification, white supremacy[6][7][8]
Named by
Benjamin Chavis[11]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Climate change[12]
Significant person
Robert D. Bullard, David Naguib Pellow[9][10]
🏷️ Also known as
en ecological apartheid en environmental racism en ecological racism ar العنصرية البيئية cs environmentální rasismus de Umweltrassismus el Περιβαλλοντικός ρατσισμός es racismo medioambiental es racismo ambiental fa نژادپرستی زیست محیطی fr racisme environnemental he גזענות סביבתית id rasisme lingkungan id apartheid ekologi id rasisme ekologi ja 環境的レイシズム ko 환경 인종차별 nl milieuracisme pl rasizm środowiskowy ro rasism ecologic
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh2021004156
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
environmental-racism-in-canada
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
mP8zM
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
48312
Euronews topic ID
environmental-racism
Freebase ID
/m/03xk84
J9U entity ID
987012575197805171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
environmental-racism
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780765858
Quora topic ID
Environmental-Racism
Teen Vogue tag ID
environmental-racism
Topic's main category
Category:Environmental racism
Show all 14 identifiers +2
Wellcome Collection concept ID
w78tweqe
Yale LUX ID
concept/0d04cad2-6511-48ea-8848-5a5a0c8fc8c2

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🔗 Connections
Has contributing factor 2
gentrification, suburbanization
Subclass of 2
racism, institutional racism
Has cause 1
poverty
Instance of 1
concept
Named by 1
Benjamin Chavis
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Climate change
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Summary

environmental racism is a concept[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Handled, mitigated, or managed by → climate justice, environmental justice
    Canadian Encyclopedia article ID → environmental-racism-in-canada
    Significant person → Robert D. Bullard, David Naguib Pellow
    Has contributing factor → suburbanization, gentrification, white supremacy
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Canadian Encyclopedia article ID: environmental-racism-in-canada"
  2. 12w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Handled, mitigated, or managed by → climate justice, environmental justice
    "Created claim: Handled, mitigated, or managed by: climate justice, import w/ 🧙 Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata"
  3. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → mP8zM
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has contributing factor → suburbanization, gentrification, white supremacy
    Named by → Benjamin Chavis
    Subclass of → racism, institutional racism
    Instance of → concept
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987012575197805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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