This article introduces the “racial environmental state” as an analytical framework for examining race and environment as mutually constituting modes of state power. Under racial capitalism, the state relies on the constant articulation of racial and environmental difference and domination to sustain the uneven geographies necessary for capitalism. The racial environmental state offers a way to examine hegemonic state power operating through the convergences of race and environment, as a site for resistance, and the proliferation of abolition geographies. Using this framework, the author analyzes the abolitionist struggle to transform the carceral geographies of California’s Central Valley through a campaign to stop the construction of a prison in Delano, California. This case study shows the importance of recognizing race and environment as interconnected systems of domination and resistance. It also highlights the possibilities and limitations of engaging the state in the abolitionist fight for freedom.

本文介绍了“种族环境状态”作为研究种族和环境作为相互构成的国家权力模式的分析框架。在种族资本主义下，国家依靠种族和环境差异以及统治的不断表达来维持资本主义所必需的不均衡地域。种族环境国家提供了一种检查通过种族和环境融合运作的霸权国家权力的方法，作为抵抗的场所，以及废奴地理学的扩散。使用这个框架，作者分析了废奴主义者通过阻止在加利福尼亚州德拉诺建造监狱的运动来改变加利福尼亚中央山谷监狱地理的斗争。本案例研究显示了将种族和环境视为相互关联的统治和抵抗系统的重要性。它还强调了让国家参与废奴主义争取自由的斗争的可能性和局限性。