Graduation Year
2016
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Martha Arguello
Reader 2
Zayn Kassam
Reader 3
Char Miller
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© 2015 Rickie Cleere
Abstract
This thesis explores the ways in which the environmental justice movement, which is in opposition to environmental racism, and the Black Lives Matter movement, which is in opposition to police brutality and other forms of racism, are part of the same struggle: a struggle against the neoliberal violence of the state. This struggle against neoliberal violence is at the same time a struggle for communities of color to achieve self-determination on a global scale, a monumental task which might be informed through a revolutionary intercommunalist framework of global grassroots solidarity. State oppression embodies violence in more forms that one, including co-optation—which entails the assimilation of people into a political framework that answers to the gatekeepers of transnational capital. This work includes input from environmental justice activists from Los Angeles County in its exploration of local grassroots struggles.
Recommended Citation
Cleere, Rickie, "Environmental Racism and the Movement for Black Lives: Grassroots Power in the 21st Century" (2016). Pomona Senior Theses. 140.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/140
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