define environmental racism.One of the key themes behind the idea of environmental racism
is the idea of what Rob Nixon calls “slow violence:” because the
individual and public health effects of environmental damage are
temporally dispersed, the violence of environmental racism is not
immediately felt by victims, and instead extends over months,
years, decades, and includes impacts generations. Environmental
damages have slow-moving effects that complicate our typical legal
and ethical understandings of responsibility, which focus on direct
and immediate effects...