This working group reveals how Latina/o/x communities confront environmental injustices and adapt to extreme climate events. The three regions studied are: Chicago, Los Angeles, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. This project aims to create a collection of digital humanities archives centering the experiences and struggles of Latinx communities. This collection of public archives can enrich scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. It will be a resource for those concerned with how climate change is rapidly and devastatingly affecting Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean communities.

This endeavor contains five research projects under its umbrella:
• Disparate Disaster Impacts on Undocumented Migrants
• Chicago Latinx Voices on Environmental & Climate Change Racism
• Experiences of Slow Violence along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
• Crossing Humboldt Park and Puerto Rico
• Climate Justice, Sustainability, and the Informal City

Research Questions

• How do low-income Latinx communities experience, adapt, and resist extreme climate events?

• How does climate change increase/trigger the current inequities experienced by vulnerable
  Latinx communities?

• What adaptation strategies have households and communities developed to improve their living
  conditions and adapt to climate change challenges?

• What can academic researchers do to support these adaptation strategies?