Blacks weather, Whites climate

This essay explores the intersections of race, weather and climate. Earth science construes as temperature precipitation that impacts environments. Thinking about how this applies to bodies has come into vogue in trying understand disproportionate number COVID-19 infections deaths for Blacks Latinx people. Arline Geronimus pioneered 1992 when she transposed notion “weathering” from its standard meaning a process decays wood onto cumulative racism experienced by Black women resulting excessive maternal death. Her “weathering hypothesis” tracks assemblage negative health outcomes all African Americans caused dangerous work environments polluted neighborhoods. My shows these embodied effects are linked larger histories burning fossil fuels. We now know coal oil transforms climate increasing ratio CO 2 molecules. also shifting determines specific outcomes. However, we don’t yet have full picture racial dynamic undergirding this. As corollary weathering, proposes “climating help expose power Euro-descendant whites wielded centuries intervene earth’s