Required Material
Self-select one chapter of choice each from:
Books
- Animal’s People, by Indra Sinha, Simon and Schuster. A fictionalized, yet compelling story inspired by the Bhopal disaster.
- An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas, by Diane Wilson.
- A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, by Harriet Washington. Little Brown
- Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality by Robert Bullard Taylor and Francis (for a full list of Dr. Bullard’s books, click here).
- Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger, By Judy Sze University of California Press.
- Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene, edited by Stacia Ryder et. al. Routledge
- Cite this chapter
- “Teaching Anti-Racism Through Environmental Justice Studies.” In: Haltinner, K. (eds) Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America. Springer, Dordrecht. Pellow, D.N. (2014).
- There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities by Ingrid R.C. Waldron Fernwood Publishing.
Self-select two of the various elements listed below:
Long Version Interviews
Participants shared so many personal insights and deep knowledge, it was impossible to use all of the interview for the podcasts. Please explore these longer conversations for additional understanding and education.
Pamela Miller, Founder and Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Co-chair of the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN).
Listen to Pam Miller
Mark Mitchell, MD, MPH, Emeritus Professor of Climate Change, Energy, & Environmental Health Equity at George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communications, Co-Chair of the Connecticut Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Council, with the Commissioner of the CT Department of Environmental Protection. Chair of the National Medical Association’s Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change
Monica Unseld, Founder, Until Justice Data Partners
Diane Wilson, San Antonia Bay Waterkeeper
Viola “Vi” Waghiyi, a Sivuqaq Yupik, Native Village of Savoonga Tribal Citizen (St Lawrence Island), mother, and grandmother, Environmental Health and Justice Program Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, member of U.S. White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council..
Articles
- “A Valuable Reputation,” the New Yorker Magazine, about biochemist Tyrone Hayes.
- “Ecological Unequal Exchange: Quantifying Emissions of Toxic Chemicals Embodied in the Global Trade of Chemicals, Products, and Waste.” Tong, Kate, et al. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 17, no. 4, 1 Apr. 2022, p. 044054.
- “Environmental Contamination of the Yupik People on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska,” by David Carpenter. 2011. Journal of Indigenous Research.
Reports
- Return to Chemical Valley 2019, by ecojustice
- Study: Women of Color Exposed to More Toxic Chemicals in Personal Care Products Environmental Working Group
- Toxic Waste and Race Commission for Racial Justice
- Toxic Waste and Race at Twenty: Why Race Still Matters After All These Years, by Robert Bullard
- Warning Signs: Toxic Air Pollution Identified at Oil and Gas Development Sites, Coming Clean, Inc.
- Who’s in Danger? Environmental Health and Justice Alliance
Videos
- A Brief History of Environmental Justice ProPublica
- A Look at Cancer Alley From the Front Lines. NowThis Earth
- Confessions of an Environmental Racist, with Dr. Troy Abel
- Environmental impact of the Chemical Industry in Sarnia | Wikipedia audio article
- Environmental Justice in Ecological Research and Education. ESA Water Cooler Chat, The Ecological Society of America, 11 Dec. 2020,
- Environmental Racism and Justice in Canada, EcoPolitics Podcast Episode 4
- Environmental Racism on Native Land, Native Voices TV, with the late Garvard Good Plume.
- “Future Conditional: The Grasshopper Effect: Toxic Pollution in the Arctic” from
Journey to Planet Earth. Screenscope. - Hilton Kelley: 2011 Goldman Prize winner, USA, Goldman Fund
- Jemez Principles, for organizing groups.
- Mossville Environmental Action Now, Dorothy Felix. Environmental Health and Justice Alliance
- Mossville: When Great Trees Fall, a film about the destruction of an historic African American community by the petrochemical industry in Louisiana.
- My Toxic Reality, rap song by Hilton Kelley from Port Arthur, Texas.
- Poisoned Lives: Secrets of the Chemical Industry | ENDEVR Documentary about testing chemicals on prison inmates)
- Sacrifice Zones: Communities in the Path of Industrial Pollution by ProPublica
- Sharon Lavigne, 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner for the United States, the Goldman Fund
- The Climate Crisis Report in Focus, with Michele Roberts from the Environmental Health and Justice Alliance
- The Story of Grassy Narrows – PSAC-AFPC
- Voices of Grassy Narrows – Judy Da Silva PSAC-AFPC
- What It’s Like to Live in Cancer Alley NowThis
Other Podcasts
DDT in Africa, based on a U.S. Congressional Briefing.
- Agents of Change, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Environmental Health News collaboration presenting voices of those working on environmental justice.
- Broken Ground with Robert Bullard from the Southern Environmental Law Center.
- Living on Earth, “EPA Charged with Reverse Discrimination.” Monique Harden from the Deep South Centre for Environmental Justice.
- Toxic Avengers with Daniel Rosenberg – Long time environmental health stalwart Daniel Rosenberg interviews environmental health and environmental justice advocates.
Websites
- Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Black Women for Wellness
- Bullard Center for Climate Justice (Texas)
- Canadian Coalition for Environmental and Climate Justice
- Center for Health, Environment and Justice (Lois Gibbs)
- Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters
- Community In Power and Development Association (CIDA) (Port Arthur, Texas)
- Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
- Diane Wilson (Seadrift, Texas)
- Environmental Justice and Health Alliance
- Free Grassy Narrows (Grassy Narrows, Ontario)
- Just Transition Alliance
- Los Jardines Institute (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
- Planetary Health Alliance Education Materials
- Southern Environmental Law Center
- t.e.j.a.s. (texas environmental justice advocacy services) (Houston,Texas)
- Until Justice Data Partners (Louisville, Kentucky)
- WEACT for Environmental Justice (Harlem)