These are some of our favorite sources on topics surrounding Environmental Justice. This library was made possible with the assistance of RIPI Undergraduate Research Fellows Phoebe Dias, Maggie Fox, Indy Cousin and Beth Seagroves. 

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Annotated Bibliography

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List of Environmental Justice Studies

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Theories of Environmental Justice

Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature by David Schlosberg
(Oxford University Press, 2007)

Environmental Justice Analysis: Theories, Methods, and Practice by Feng Liu (Routledge,
2001)

New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality and Activism edited by Rachel
Stein (Rutgers University Press, 2004)

Social Class As Racialized Political Experience by Jamila Michener (The Forum, 2017)

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Environmental Justice Movements

From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice
Movement by Luke Cole and Shelia Foster (New York University Press, 2000)

Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice
Movement edited by David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle (The MIT Press, 2005)

“The Visual Politics of Environmental Justice” by Teena Gabrielson (Environmental
Humanities, 2019)

“17 Principles of Environmental Justice” by The First National People of Color
Environmental Leadership Summit (1991)

Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader by Christopher W.
Wells (University of Washington Press, 2018)

Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government’s Response to Environmental Justice by
David M. Konisky et al. (The MIT Press, 2015)

“Grassroots Activism: An Exploration of Women of Color’s Role in the Environmental
Justice Movement” by Shirley A. Rainey and Glenn S. Johnson (Race, Gender & Class,
2009)

Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development by Anne Harley and
Eurig Scandrett (Policy Press, 2019)

Toxic Truths: Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth Age edited by
Thom Davies and Alice Mah (Manchester University Press, 2020)

Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice by Christina Robertson and Jennifer
Westerman (University of Nevada Press, 2015)

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Environmental Justice and Race

Environmental Racism and the Contamination of Black Lives: A Literature Review. by Henderson, S., Wells, R. (2021)

Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality by Robert D. Bullard (Routledge, 2000)

The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place edited
by Robert D. Bullard (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD 2007)

“Is there Environmental Racism? The Demographics of Hazardous Waste in Los Angeles
County” by Tom Boer, Manuel Pastor, James Sadd, and Lori Snyder (Social Science
Quarterly, 1997)

Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class and the Environment by David
Camacho and Maria Bueno (Duke University Press, 1998)

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Environmental Justice and Indigenous Persons

Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley by Sarah Marie Wiebe (UBC Press, 2016)

“Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice” by Anne Spice Special Issue of Environment and Society (2018)

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North Carolina Environmental Justice Organizations and Resources

North Carolina Environmental Justice Network 

NC Policy Watch: Environment 

Piedmont Environmental Alliance

West End Revitalization Association 

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