The knowledge and practices of black people living under routine environmental violence in the US has been understudied. Sociologists report the disproportionality but very few explore the practices of people living under imposed environmental duress as a resource for understanding the how space is socially produced in hegemonic ways. Even fewer explore how these groups can be a resource for understanding how environmentally racist constraints generate radical modes of communal and social-ecological formations necessary for an alternative moral vision of the earth. My dissertation aims to close this gap by exploring the moral visions of the earth put forth by urban black women who live in public housing units and who are also living under environmental constraint. I specifically research how black women in Chicago’s Altgeld Garden housing project resist environmental violence in their community and their refusal to be stigmatized as disposable. Altgeld is a black housing project in Chicago. Sociologists identify it as one of the most egregious cases of environmental racism in Chicago because an overwhelming number of waste and polluting industries circle the community on all sides. Several questions drive my study: how do black women under environmental constraint construct their spaces differently? What strategies do they use? What socio-ecological and communal formations do these strategies generate? Given their visceral experiences of our environmental crisis, what are their visions of the earth? I explore these questions using ethnographic research, urban sociology, and theoretical and poetic frameworks within black studies. My argument is that in understanding antiblack environmental violence as a generative force, a different moral imaginary arises, one in which the object of environmental violence becomes a subjective resource for social existence in the midst of imposed neoliberal capitalist values and under environmentally racist constraints.