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Racism as a Motivator for Climate Justice

Author(s) -

Mark A. Mitchell

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

daedalus

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34

H-Index - 55

eISSN - 1548-6192

pISSN - 0011-5266

DOI - 10.1162/daed_a_01819

Subject(s) - racism , privilege (computing) , institutional racism , criminology , leverage (statistics) , sociology , social justice , economic justice , political science , gender studies , law , machine learning , computer science

In the wake of the recent unjustifiable deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and several other African Americans at the hands of police, we have witnessed persistent and widespread protests against systemic racism, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed African Americans and Latinos at two to three times the rate of Whites. Racism is undeniably an evil, pervasive, destructive force in our society, yet it can also be a great motivating force. This essay is a personal story of how being the subject of racism led one person to acquire and leverage his professional privilege to help create and change institutions to act on climate and environmental injustices while countering the systemic racism that he witnessed and experienced in childhood.

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