Bibliographies

Environmental Racism

Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997
From: "Lilian P. Carswell" <lpc5@columbia.edu>

Hello everyone.  Sorry it has taken me a while to put this list together, but here are the suggestions people contributed in response to my query about environmental racism sources.  I've preserved the annotations in many cases, but I've tried to standardize the list and supplement publication info when I had it on hand.

Thanks again to all of you for your contributions to this wonderful bibliography!

FICTION

Ana Castillo, So Far From God.

Louise Erdrich, Tracks.

William Faulkner, "The Bear," Go Down, Moses.

Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit.  New York: Atheneum, 1990.  (for a look at the effects of oil drilling on Osage culture)

Linda Hogan, Solar Storms.

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams.

Barry Lopez, "The Negro in the Kitchen."

Simon Ortiz, "Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land," in his Woven Stone. (for a good, poetic discussion of uranium mining on
Indian land)

Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead (or at least the parts dealing with environmental racism)

Gerald Vizenor, Heirs of Columbus.

Gerald Vizenor, "Landfill Meditation," in Landfill Meditation.  Hanover: UP of New England, 1991, 98-115.

Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge.

NONFICTION

Dana Alston, ed.  We Speak for Ouselves: Social Justice, Race and the
Environment.  Washington, DC: Panos Institute, 1990.

Robert Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality.  Boulder: Westview P, 1990. (see also several other books by him on the politics, economics, and sociology of environmental racism)

Robert Collins (et al), "Environmental Racism: A Challenge to Community Development," Journal of Black Studies 25.3 (1995): 354-376.

Kevin Doyle, "Environmental Justice: A Growing Movement,"  Black Collegian 24.4 (1994): 36-40.

Donald A. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen, Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples. Santa Fe: Clear Light, 1995.

Ramachandra Guha, "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness
Preservation: A Third World Critique," in Environmental Ethics 11 (1989) 71-83.
 
Nathan Hare, Black Ecology, 1970.

David Harvey, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. (for a discussion of "environmental racism" and "environmental justice")

Teresa Jordan, ed., The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write
about the West

Winona LaDuke, Carolyn Merchant, ed.  Ecology:  Key Concepts in Critical Theory.  It originally appeared in The Nonviolent Activist (Sept.-Oct. 92).

Melinda Laituri and Andrew Kirby, "Finding Fairness in America's Cities?  The Search for Environmental Equity in Everyday Life" in Journal of Social Sciences 50.3 (1994): 121-139.

Nicholas Lawson, "Where Whitemen Come to Play," in Cultural Survival Quarterly 13.2 (1989): 54.

Dan McGovern, The Campo Indian Landfill War.  Norman and London: U of Oklahoma P, 1995.

Maria Mies and Vendana Shiva, Ecofeminism.  London: Zed, 1993, especially
"The Impoverishment of the Environment: Women and Children Last."

Laura Pulido, Environmental and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1996.  (for a look at how minority groups in rural areas are using available resources to improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions)

Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities
Surrounding Hazardous Waste Sites.  NY: United Church of Christ, April 1987.

Seager, Joni.  Earth Follies.  NY: Routledge, 1993.  (pp. 148-161 on waste trafficking esp.)

Vandana Shiva, The Violence of the Green Revolution (1990) and Staying Alive (1988)  (for an international perspective on environmental racism, or
eco-colonialism)