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How Industries Can Profit from Historic Inequities and Create Oppressive Systems


“In a lot of ways it goes back to the idea of some bodies literally being valued more than other bodies.” Anya Groner, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts 
The article centers on Sharon Lavigne, an advocate for environmental regulation in the St. James Parish region of Louisiana. The region is home to hundreds of petrochemical and petroleum plants, which emit carcinogens into the air of the surrounding mostly Black communities. Groner talks about how the history of slavery and Black oppression enables present-day environmental racism. 
Listen: Anya Groner on the history and reality of environmental racism.
 
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Anya Groneris a writer and teacher at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her piece in the Atlantic’s Inheritance project is titled “One Oppressive Economy Begets Another.” She says the region of Louisiana featured in her article is a classic example of environmental racism. ”It’s often called cancer alley … because ....

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The Atlantic Publishes Chapter 2 of "Inheritance": Uncovering Black History in the Spaces and Places "Where Memories Live"


The Atlantic Publishes Chapter 2 of “Inheritance”: Uncovering Black History in the Spaces and Places “Where Memories Live”
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“Active racism, exclusion, and environmental injustice have systematically destroyed or buried whole sections of Black history. Many of those who gripe about ‘erasing history’ of Confederate monuments and other symbols in the South have no idea how much history has already been erased.”
A new chapter of
The Atlantic’s “Inheritance” series, a multiyear project on American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory, pieces together this erased history by returning to the spaces and places “ ....

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