REL 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: African Diaspora, White Supremacy
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Pockets of the environment that are treated and views in certain ways based on the racialized identity of those inhabitation those spaces. Places that within a continuum of history of colonialism. Some people are deemed to be find living close to a garbage dump. People in power say its fine and economically good policy. People have human rights to clean water; we don"t see this in high income white communities because they have the power to fight it (old wine in a new bottle; same old colonialism, but in a different way) Government in ns doesn"t take into consideration of social dimension, only the economic costs. We need to have alliances across the board; we should not restrict ourselves to have allies who are like us (thinking about a larger sale movement) many groups have been brutalized, ostra- cized, killed, etc. Groups which are different need to work together. No one but yourself can free up your mind .
