It may be useful to rethink the mapping less an outcome of environmental injustice on social communities but rather as a starting point to expand our theoretical understandings of "racialization." For example, how might this map provide an empirical example of what constitutes a "racial project?" Conversely, how might it serve as an emancipatory tool for political action?
The caption could be elaborated to comment more on how this image connects to current forms of data available about toxicity in Los Angeles— does updated TRI data show the ongoing reconfigurations of emissions and industry relative to environmental activism since 1990? Which forms of chemical toxicants and industries were not yet added to the TRI at this point in time, thereby making this map perhaps even an underestimation of uneven exposures at the time?