This visualization shows how different conceptions of social and material toxicants play a pivotal role in strategic narrativizations of community. The opaque notions of blight and urban renewal are used to justify violent actions against raced classed and gendered tenants—thus, toxicity becomes a rationalization for oppression. Whether its actual existence is real or imagined, the supposed need for building material “renewal” obscures other violent motivations for tenant displacement.
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