Divestment from communities similarly serves the interests of racial capitalism: “As racial justice movements succeeded in achieving increased access for Black people, the state simply divested from public schools, hospitals, housing, social benefits and entitlements, while demonizing and projecting individual moral failure onto people who accessed them to survive in the wake of structural economic oppression and exclusion and growing deindustrialization.”121 Building on the work of Marxist geographer David Harvey, Wilson Gilmore names this process “organized abandonment,” a concerted
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