Confronting Racism, Capitalism, and Ecological Degradation: Urban Farming and the Struggle for Social Justice in Black Los Angeles

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The role of capitalism in the ecological crisis and jobs crisis facing the Los Angeles African American community is examined, arguing that sectors of Black Americans, like many people in the Global South, are being pushed out of the formal system of capitalist employment. In response, the paper looks to delinking and the development of economic experiments rooted in community economic self-determination based on anti-capitalist values, reporting on a small urban farming project the authors are starting.