Environmental Justice
Recommended Readings
Required Books:
Bunyan Bryant, Environmental Advocacy: Working for Economic and Environmental Justice, Ann Arbor, MI, 2002.
Peter H. Eichstaedt, If You Poison us: Uranium and Native Americans, Red Crane Books, Santa Fe, NM, 1994.
David Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002.
Lis Harris, Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze,
Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2003.
Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia prepared by The Basel Action Network (BAN) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC)
Recommended Books:
Bullard, Robert D., Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
Cole, Luke W., and Sheila R. Foster. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Hershkowitz, Allen, Bronx Ecology, Washington, D. C., Island Press, 2002.
Hurley, Andrew. 1995. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (Excellent study of positionality of white and African American steel mill workers and local residents.)
Szasz, Andrew, EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice, Minneapolis, MN: U. of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Grinde, Donald A., and Bruce E. Johansen. Ecocide of Native America. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 1995.
Supplementary Books:
Bryant, Bunyan, and Paul Mohai (eds.), Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
Bullard, Robert D. (ed.), Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1994.
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring with an introduction by Al Gore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Cronon, William (ed.), Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
Foreman, Christopher H. Jr., The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998.
Grinde, Donald A., and Bruce E. Johansen. Ecocide of Native America. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 1995.
Hofrichter, Richard, ed., Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1993.
Szasz, Andrew, EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice, Minneapolis, MN: U. of Minnesota Press, 1994.
United Church of Christ. 1987. Toxic Waste and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites. New York: United Church of Christ.
Articles:
Anderton, Douglas L., Andy B. Anderson, John Michael Oakes, Michael R. Fraser. 1994. "Environmental Equity: The Demographics of Dumping." Demography 31(2): 229-248
Been, Vicki, Locally Undesirable land uses in minority neighborhoods: Disproportionate siting or market dynamics? Yale Law Journal, 1994.
Guha, Ramachandra, 1997. "The Authoritarian Biologist and the Arrogance of Anti-Humanism: Wildlife Conservation in the Third World," The Ecologist 21:14-20.
Mohai, Paul. 1995. “The Demographics of Dumping Revisited: Examining the Impact of Alternate Methodologies in Environmental Justice Research.” Virginia Environmental Law Journal 14: 615-652.
Web Sites:
Environmental Justice Curriculum Resource Guidebook compiled by Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Chad G. Johnson
Brown University, Department of Sociology SO 187-A, Environmental Sociology: An Environmental Justice Approach, Professor Phil Brown
EPA Environmental Justice Homepage
Environmental Justice Bibliographic Database
Professor Bunyan Bryant’s (U. of Michigan) page on environmental justice resources on the web. Includes link to Chap. 2 of Dumping in Dixie.
Readings and Resources Suggested by Zoltan Grossman:
Grossman, Zoltan. 1995. “Native and Environmental Movements: Linking the Native Movement for Sovereignty and the Environmental Movement.” Z Magazine 8(11):42-50 (November). (Overview of Native environmental movement values and issues.) http://cnie.org/NAE/docs/grossman.html Accompanying North America map: http://www.alphacdc.com/treaty/mp_thrts.html
Midwest Treaty Network: http://www.treatyland.com/
Menominee Treaty Rights and Mining Impacts Office.
Gedicks, Al. 1993. The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggle Against Multinational Corporations. Boston: South End Press. (Also the Al Gedicks video, "Keepers of the Water.")
Grossman, Zoltan, and Debra McNutt. 2001. "From Enemies to Allies: Native Americans and Whites Join Forces in Wisconsin." ColorLines (April).
LaDuke, Winona. 1999. All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Boston: South End Press. (Excellent source on contemporary grassroots Native environmental activism.)
Whaley, Rick, and Walter Bresette. 1994. Walleye Warriors: An Effective Alliance Against Racism and for the Earth. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.
Camacho, David E., ed. 1998. Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (A comprehensive and up-to-date anthology.)
Hurley, Andrew. 1995. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (Excellent study of positionality of white and African American steel mill workers and local residents.)
Pulido, Laura. 1996. Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (Contrasting Chicano and white environmental responses to pesticides and land protection issues.)
Pulido, Laura. 1996. "A Critical Review of the Methodology of Environmental Racism Research." Antipode 28(2), pp. 142-59. (Critique of the waste siting debate, shifting attention toward white social advantages to avoid pollution.)
Film and Video Documentaries:
WGBH, Toxic Racism
Robert Bahar and George McCollough, Laid to Waste: A Chester Neighborhood Fights for its Future, Drexel University TV, Philadelphia, PA.
Barbara Borns and Tim Tynan, Center of the Earth: The Chippewa Flowage after 75 Years, Looking Back and Going on
Laura Dunn, Green, 150 miles along the Mississippi River, 50 min., 2000.