Linking History to Contemporary State-Sanctioned Slow Violence through Cultural and Structural Racism

Margaret Hicken, Lewis Miles, Haile,Solome, Private: Esposito, Michael Hughes. 2021. Linking History to Contemporary State-Sanctioned Slow Violence through Cultural and Structural Racism. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 694(1):48-58. Published in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021

In this recent publication, Margaret T. Hicken, Lewis Miles, Solome Haile, and Michael Esposito argue that the “slow violence” of environmental racism is linked to other forms of racial violence that have been enacted throughout history. This paper lays out many of the important themes of the research agenda of the Landscapes of Structural Racism and Health Lab:
“The first step in attempting to make lasting change toward equity is to develop an empirical literature that tests this general framework, linking history to the present through the common themes of cultural racism and the contemporaneous features of structural racism.”