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What is Environmental Justice?

Environmental Justice Resources

Books

Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney*
Clean and White: a History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality by Robert D. Bullard*
Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices From the Grassroots by Robert Bullard*
Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color Robert D. Bullard*
There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities by Ingrid Waldron*
From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement by Luke Cole and Sheila R. Foster*
The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy by Kenneth Gould
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, And Residential Mobility by Dorceta E. Taylor*
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman
Environmental Racism and the Movement for Black Lives: Grassroots Power in the 21st Century by Rickie Cleere*
Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town by Melissa Checker
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman*
What Is Critical Environmental Justice? by David N. Pellow*
*BIPOC Authors

Articles

– Somini Sengupta*
– Ayana Elizabeth Johnson*
 – Rob Nixon
 – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson*

Documentaries

Cooked: Survival by Zipcode
Drumbeat for Mother Earth
Fenceline: A company Town Divided
Homeland
In Our Own Backyards: Uranium Mining in the United States
Climate Refugees

Resources for Additional Information

– Prominent Scholar of Environmental Justice

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