The work seeks to investigate theoretical-practical and methodological contributions aimed at analyzing the relationship between ecological criticism and the racial question, tracing the emerging perspectives in the literature affiliated with the field of critical black studies, decolonial feminist studies and Afro-Amerindian epistemologies, in addition to the criticism built from political ecology and environmental sociology. Such movements start from the problematization that the most commonly adopted approaches lack a greater imbrication between ecological devastation, capitalism, coloniality and blackness, which is capable of deepening the the understanding and formulation of the idea of environmental racism. On the other hand, one can observe the concern of such literature with the construction of political imaginaries that the knowledge woven "on the edges of the plantations" allows to be evidenced. We are interested in the analytical potential of these reflections to understand the dynamics of environmental conflicts in traditional territories in Brazil.