Malini Ranganathan
@maliniranga
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Associate Prof @AU_SIS . Urban geographer. Land, labor, race, caste, & environmental unfreedoms. 📚 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴. @cpluscp . Views mine 🍉
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Sikh and Mexican farm laborers are uniting in the struggle against caste/casta in California - this is a fascinating read on how previously unlikely solidarities are being forged through a shared language of anti-casteism, anti-racism, and worker rights.
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Who is financing Atlanta's Cop City where Tortuguita was murdered in cold blood?
The Atlanta Police Foundation's board is filled with execs from multinational corporations and real estate companies. The ties between property and police power run deep.
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Political violence is never OK, which is why we had police in full riot gear body slam, pepper spray, and crush college students and faculty protesting mass, genocidal, international law-breaking political violence.
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This is an *actual sentence* from Vivek Ramaswamy’s book.
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Against the moral depravity of the Biden administration, a peer-reviewed health journal feels compelled to step in to prove Palestinian humanity—if not in life, then in death.
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This is big. One of Europe’s biggest universities, Ghent in Belgium, will discontinue all institutional collaborations with Israeli universities and research institutions. Never doubt that the global movement for Palestinian liberation is working.
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Feels surreal, but I just heard I was awarded tenure with promotion to associate professor. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible! I promise to never take this position for granted 👊🏽🙏🏽
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My latest
@washingtonpost
piece on how Bengaluru's real estate capitalism and corruption--born from a history of agrarian caste, class, and property relations--are driving climate and flood risk.
15+ yrs of research, broken down👇🏽
@monkeycageblog
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Stop Burning Humans. Burn the (casteist) Manu (smriti).
Protest sign from Washington, DC today.
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Hiranandani Gardens is a land scam by the rich. Meanwhile, Jai Bhim Nagar, a working class settlement, was demolished in June. Savarna women resenting Jai Bhim Nagar women at the protest yday is peak casteism, classism, Savarna feminism, & real estate corruption rolled into one.
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Excited to announce that my book "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" coauthored with David Pike &
@SapanaDoshi1
will be out with
@CornellPress
in Apr 2023! The book upends conventional theories that equate corruption with “bribery." 1/🧵
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In a few hours, Washington DC, the capital of US empire, will witness the largest protest for Palestine in US history. The people demand an end to US-supported genocidal slaughter. The people demand an end to apartheid. The people demand a ceasefire now. See you on the streets.
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Tomorrow in my lecture on colonialism and the environment, I am teaching this piece "Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel: Settler colonialism and environmental injustice in the age of climate catastrophe."
There are so many ways to not be silent right now.
So. Many. Ways.
Link 👇🏾
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Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence & New Landscapes of Resistance (Forthcoming, 2024).
"The bulldozing of Palestinian lands by Israel has been complemented by aerial spraying of military herbicides, extending the reach of Israeli violence into chemical warfare."
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Yesterday a student asked me in my office hours ‘Do you think you are living your purpose?’ and I almost choked on my 3-hour old coffee
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After 3 years in the making, our special issue "Racial Regimes of Property" is out in
@SocietyandSpace
~
In the Intro,
@anne_bonds
+ I review critical property studies and ask: How do modern forms of property and race co-evolve through (dis)possession?
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It is true that Hindutva ideologues hate Gandhi. It is true that Gandhi was complex. But let us understand how Ram Rajya, Gandhi's adherence to "santana," and his patronizing "Harijan uplift" are soft Hindutva. Let us read Ambedkar & Periyar on Gandhi rather than UC perspectives
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Today was a historic day. Hundreds of people from across the US and India committed to dismantling caste attended the unveiling Dr. B.R Ambedkar’s statue
@ambedkar_center
in Maryland. May this Statue of Equality be a symbol of transatlantic struggles and solidarities yet to come.
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In light of severe flooding happening in Bengaluru right now, I'm posting some of my writing explaining the cyclical nature of this crisis and why we need to be wary of technocratic fixes like "encroachment removal drives" and "drain widening"
A short 🧵
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I just learned that my colleague, anthropologist Adrienne Pine, taught a class this summer called ‘Tribes on the Hill’ in which she and her students inverted the ethnographic gaze to study the exotic rituals, practices, and taboos of US Congressional folk and that is just so cool
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Very humbled to be recognized with the 2023 Harold M. Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice from the
@theAAG
. This award has previously gone to
@demonicground
, Laura Pulido, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Caroline Faria and others whom I greatly admire! Much appreciation ✊🏼
The 2023 AAG Harold M. Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice is presented to Dr. Malini Ranganathan for her contributions to debates in racial geographies, political ecology, and urban geography. Congratulations!
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Where does caste fit in a global history of racial capitalism?
@SheetalChabbers
new piece for Historical Materialism~
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The numbers are massive in DC. I’ve never seen anything like it in my 10 years of living here.
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One shortfall of Wilkerson's "Caste" is a serious engagement with the historical geographies of capitalism: how, in distinct but also related ways, capitalism in both India and the U.S. is predicated on--and draws value from--racialized and "casteized" social hierarchies. 1/n
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Our book is here! It smells & feels beautiful (thanks
@CornellPress
), even though it's about the rotten, predatory, and normalized practices of elite accumulation that drive capitalist urbanization--and the stories that people spin.
Two events coming up👇🏽
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For those interested in the unholy intersection of Hindutva ideology and environmental politics in India, Mukul Sharma has a substantially revised edition of his book "Green and Saffron: The RSS, Modi, and Indian Environmental Politics" out (2024).
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US universities that promoted critical race, Black & decolonial scholarship in the wake of George Floyd are now realizing that those *same* scholars and institutions they once supported *also* stand by Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab humanity. And my, are those universities stumped
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This interview with Rashid Khalidi is a must-read: "Americans who talk about human rights and democracy are going to be treated as the most rank, nauseating hypocrites going forward. Nobody believes that rhetoric in the rest of the world, with good reason"
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My article on caste and segregation in urban India is out in
@ERSjournal
.
Thinking through a framework of global racial capitalism, I argue that racialized and casteized labor & property regimes are essential to mapping urban environmental unfreedoms.
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"If it was not Palestine, it would have been different. But it is Palestine. Silence... It is difficult to see the destruction of cities without understanding the message that it is a destruction of a people."
@Dr_Ammar_Azzouz
's
@CITYanalysis
editorial
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"Towards a Political Ecology of Caste and the City"
My commentary on current & future directions in urban studies, political ecology, & environmental justice scholarship based on an appraisal of these fields over the past 2 decades. Download or dm me👇🏽
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Will be at UT Austin later this week to give a Critical Geographies of Race talk~
Looking forward to discussing my work on the political ecologies of climate, caste, and racial capitalism in historical perspective, from colonial cities to plantations of the Indian Ocean World.
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My mother, who lives in Bangalore, was covid exposed and came down with fever last Monday. I’ve had a small glimpse into ground realities and the political economy of the disease in India right now. The political blame game is sickening, the inequities death-dealing. A thread👇🏽
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Here's a good opportunity: 2025-2027 Postdoc in Urban Frontiers funded by the European Research Council at University of Copenhagen
PhDs in anthro, development studies, economics, geography, political science, sociology or similar are invited to apply~
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I'm honored to step in as Interim Faculty Director of
@AUAntiracismCtr
to help cohere the university's scholarship on race and empire, and to amplify the political imperatives of antiracism at this crucial time. Delighted to have
@christineaplatt
as Interim Managing Director✊🏽
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Take note—this careful, slow, low-voice factual recounting of the horrors Israel has perpetrated against the Palestinians is being done in excruciating detail by the senior judge of the ICJ. This is a superb rhetorical strategy. This in working. The whole world is nauseated.
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Thrilled that
#YodaPress
has published "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics & Publics of the Late Capitalist City." Our book explores corruption's role in urban space, power, & storytelling in India & beyond--and is timely in this moment of political scandal
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Anti-Caste Political Ecologies I, II, III - check out this fabulous set of 13 papers
@theAAG
#AAG2023
and mark your calendars!
This is going to be epic! And thanks to
@amaniponnaganti
,
@TanyaMatthan
, &
@karuvachitweets
for pulling this together🔥
Mar 25, virtual and hybrid
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Look forward to this workshop organized by Shailaja Paik🔥 Will be presenting my work "Caste, Racial Capitalism, & Anticolonial Labor Politics in the Indian Ocean World, 1910-1950" based on archival research on labor migration from colonial Madras to rubber plantations of Malaya~
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I want to teach a class called "Social Theory for Emancipation" where we would read Ambedkar, Fanon, James, Cesaire, Spivak, Mohanty, Hall, Mignolo, Robinson, Baldwin, Wynter, etc. and THEN read "canonical" social theory instead of the other way around
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Confronting Global Political Ecologies of Caste, Climate, and Racial Capitalism.
Will be at the University of Pennsylvania tomorrow speaking at the "Caste & Race: Past and Present" Seminar Series organized by Dr. Rupali Bansode~
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The cause of US abolition must be internationalist.
Consider that the Blackstone Group, one of the world's biggest property developers and driver of land grabs and slum evictions in the Global South, contributes to the NY Police Foundation.
This is just the tip of the iceberg
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New special issue in
@IJURResearch
on the political ecologies of wetlands and swamps in Mumbai and Philadelphia edited by
@liquidperson
and colleagues. Here's my coda on property, racial and caste violence, and water-land ecologies across South and North.
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Far-right ethnonationalist electoral candidate narrowly escapes assassination attempt in western hemispheric country experiencing acute democratic decline.
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It's 1.10pm in India and my jaw is on the floor.
BJP is trailing in Ayodhya.
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Omvedt called Gandhism ‘soft Hindutva’ in the first few pages of ‘Seeking Begumpura.’ This is accurate. Let’s start there. Hinduism and Hindutva are related, self-reflecting philosophies with clear throughlines. Arguing that they are separate is casteist pacification, not truth.
Relegating Hinduism as an innocent creed enables its casteist practices in the west as cultural practices. It has happened in the UK.
@dghconference
agenda is either ignorant or disingenuous. It is not helping Dalits and other oppressed caste groups outside South Asia.
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Please share widely: *The Climate Museum Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Climate and Inequality*: seeking applications from humanities scholars who wish to engage the public on climate change and inequality
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This video by Amnesty Int'l (
@amnesty
) on why it's appropriate to call Israeli occupation "apartheid" is a robust, factual teaching tool. Pairs well with the works of legal scholar Michael Sfard, forensic architect Eyal Weizman, and urbanist Oren Yiftechel
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Today I think I received the nicest words on my teaching yet. A former student told me "I gained so much unlearning in your class". Unlearning - my new pedagogical objective.
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Do social scientists really STILL use the word "clientelism" to describe politics in the global South--as if this is somehow a deviation from the norm? This word smacks of the colonial gaze and needs to be abandoned given politics everywhere, not least in the "clean" North.
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“In Gaza, Israel is waging an invisible environmental war.”
I’m quoted in this
@the_hindu
piece on the political ecology of war, the blockade, and occupation in Palestine
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Honored to be invited to give the keynote at the 2022 ‘Dimensions of Political Ecology’
@DOPEUKY
conference! Will focus on caste power, urban ecologies, and connected histories of racial capitalism at this moment of resurgent ethnonationalism. Thank you to the DOPE org committee!
We are so thrilled to announce Dr.
@maliniranga
as our DOPE 12 Keynote Speaker!! Dr. Ranganathan’s research focuses on the political ecology of land, water, and climate change vulnerability in urban contexts.
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My latest for
@thewire_in
on ongoing labour struggles in Bengaluru. Many of the workers are women and Dalits.
Labour rights are being violated in the public sector. Sham contracts like those of
@ITILTD
are like modern-day slavery.
@aicctukar
@AilajHq
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“The Racial Inequities of Green Gentrification in
#WashingtonDC
”—a collaborative chapter that
@ianguelovski
,
@DerekHyra
and I worked on for a new edited volume on the racial, class, and spatial inequities of urban greening. Might be a useful set of case studies for teaching~
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We need careful analyses of apartheid’s afterlives--how, in the face of perpetual subordination, the poor organize to demand standing and recognition from the state, however provisionally. Please read
@grundrza
book "Delivery as Dispossession" and our
@SocietyandSpace
reviews.👇🏾
I’m really grateful to
@maliniranga
for editing this forum on my book, with such careful engagement from
@ananyaUCLA
,
@nsharma101
, and Yousuf Al-Bulushi, followed by a response from me — all in
@SocietyandSpace
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"The Long Climate Crisis: Global Political Ecologies of Caste, Race, and Migration".
Very excited to be giving the Geography colloquium at CU Boulder (
@cugeography
) on Monday 2/5!
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Gail Omvedt was one of the fiercest anticaste and Ambedkarite feminist scholar-activists the world has seen.
I am indebted to her sharp and empathetic analysis of women’s movements in Maharashtra, left politics, and Dalit revolution.
Jai Bhim. Rest in Power. 💙✊🏼
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New article by
@ianguelovski
,
@annaliviabrand
,
@DerekHyra
, and me, "Decolonizing the Green City" is out in the journal Environmental Justice. We take a hard look at the racial politics of Washington DC's "equity," greening, and gentrification projects.
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BREAKING: Thousands are gathering on the National Mall in DC right now to demand ‘Cease Fire Now!’ Black Lives Matter, pro-democracy, pro-labor, Palestinian, Jewish, and interfaith groups are all here.
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Honored to be an investigator in a $15 mil NSF grant announced today, led by
@AmericanU
's
@SaulehSiddiqui
. With
@EnviroSimon
,
@tambraraye
, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, & Annie Claus, among other faculty, we are focusing on the environmental & racial justice aspects of food systems.
Today on
#FLWDay
, AU is proud to announce we are leading the 1st-ever national academic research network on
#FoodWaste
—
@WastedFoodNtwk
. This $15 million, 5-year project, funded by
@NSF
, is the largest externally funded grant award in our history.
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Excited to deliver the keynote at the
@DOPEUKY
(Dimensions of Political Ecology) 2022 Conference!
Thank you so much to the organizing collective for all the work that goes into making this conference feel like a community!
Link to join/livestream:
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Published today in
@antipodeonline
based on my research in DC's Ward 7 with
@ittygritty
: Abolitionist climate justice centers histories of organizing for freedom and an ethics of care and healing, challenging the narrow remit of 'liberal environmentalism'
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Odisha is cracking down on Adivasis (tribals) protesting bauxite mining. The passing of the Amended Forest (Conservation) Act in 2023 paved the way for corporates to expand mining in the region.
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Workers
@Amazon
India withstand grueling, inhumane work conditions even through heatwaves. Now they are fighting for an 8-hour workday, a minimum salary of Rs 25,000, equal pay for men & women, adherence to labour laws, and proper rest arrangements in accordance w/ ILO standards.
Low Wages, Long Standing Hours, No Rest Areas: A First-Person Account From an Amazon Warehouse
The company monitors our performance obsessively, and if we don’t meet our brutal hourly targets, we face punishment. | Neha✍️
#Labour
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Every. Word. Spoken in this interview with Mustafa Barghouti needs to be listened to. “The only way to end this war is to tell Israel to respect international law. You have to end this illegal occupation and accept Palestinians as equal human beings.”
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My talk on environmental casteism and the confluence of movements in Bengaluru's Cubbon Park that showed up on Sunday to stand against communalism, casteism, and hate was carried in a local Bengaluru paper today~
@BahutvaKtka
@AISA_karnataka
@FFF_Karnataka
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“The end goal of urbicide is not just ethnic cleansing of a current population, but the elimination of even the future prospects of that population” explains Prof. Ranganathan.
Thanks to
@Saumya_Kalia
for writing this article on Gaza and interviewing me.
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Congrats to my PhD advisee Dr Julie Radomski who passed her dissertation defense
@AU_SIS
w/ distinction! Her work studies the critical geopolitics & political economy of Chinese big dam development in Ecuador & navigates the ‘China’s Rise in Latin America' discourse
@research_sis
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Planning on teaching a Critical Geography class next semester? Check out Mary Lawhon and colleagues repository of syllabi spanning political geography, urban geography, race and geography, gender and geography, globalization, and more!
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"I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate."
-MLK, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963
Feeling these words more viscerally than ever this MLK Day, 2024.
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Exciting global connections: "Black, Dalit, and Sheedi Soldarities" happening now
@EqualityLabs
.
@dalitdiva
introduces the history of US empire + Black internationalism via
@KeishaBlain
. Conversation between
@CornelWest
,
@BhimArmyChief
, &
#TanzeelaQambrani
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Happy
#AmbedkarJayanti
and Dalit History Month. FYI: While academics are debating "caste" vs. "race", Dalit activists are identifying solidarities with Afro-Brazilian women's struggles, pointing out how racialization, caste, capitalism, & the police state oppress the urban poor.
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Teaching an Intro to Env Studies/Political Ecology course? Here's my updated undergrad syllabus for "Env Sustainability and Global Health". I use
@PaulRobbins15
's txtbook plus critical readings on development, race, colonialism, env justice & global health
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Tenure-line job in climate justice at Brandeis Univ! Seeking "a scholar whose research addresses disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable social groups in any part of the world, especially communities of color and indigenous communities."
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I wrote a piece on water and racial poverty in the US: Third World comparisons belie a pervasive geography of racialized water poverty where low-income people of color are disproportionately hit with unavailable, unsafe, or unaffordable water & sanitation
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