racism environmental racism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_racism https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2491965 A concept in the environmental justice movement, which developed in the United States throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The term is used to describe environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context both in practice and policy. In the United States, environmental racism criticizes inequalities between urban and exurban areas after white flight. Internationally, environmental racism can refer to the effects of the global waste trade, like the negative health impact of the export of electronic waste to China from developed countries. racism Glossary (Anti-Racism Digital Library)