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

Abstract

This article examines the role of capitalism in the ecological crisis and the jobs crisis facing the Los Angeles African American community. We argue that sectors of Black Americans, like many people in the Global South, are being pushed out of the formal system of capitalist employment. To address this, we look to delinking and the development of economic experiments rooted in community economic self-determination based on anti-capitalist values. We report on a small urban farming project that we are starting.