Mariah’s Reviews > There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities > Status Update

"...an 'epistemology of ignorance' characterizes the many ways in which white blindness is actively reproduced to inform knowledge, practices, and policies that uphold white privilege."

"...racism did not perfect patriarchy only by allowing slave masters the possibility of unrestrained control of Black women. It also secured the compliance of white women by promising them the privileges denied to slaves and threatening them with the punishments meted out to slaves."

"...public policies work best when they are strategic and directly target social ills in communities that are most affected...for non-white or racialized peoples, the added burden of racism deepens existing inequalities and disadvantages they are already experiencing related to class, such as unemployment, low income, poverty, food insecurity, and residence in under-resourced neighborhoods."