Thank you so very much for this resource - you are a lifesaver. I am teaching my course about slavery in the post-modern world online this Fall and have been desperate for more material for the students. This site has a treasure trove!
Mary Sommar
Millersville University
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Dear colleagues,
Here's a clip for a segment of a good documentary on Chester, PA called Laid to Waste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Opr-uzet7Q
Here's the whole documentary, which is worth watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfPQVpQ2kbg
I have so many suggestions. But in an EJ course I teach (primarily non history majors, mixed level), I use Christopher W. Wells, ed., Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018) as a primary source reader. It has most of the most relevant primary sources for U.S. EJ history including photos, poems, and statements by Black, brown, and indigenous folks. I also assign Wangari Maathai's Unbowed, and undergrads tend to love it (if they actually read it).
Dear colleagues,
Lindsey Dillon's case studies of Hunter's Point in San Francisco are great:
Dillon L (2015) War’s Remains: Slow Violence and the Urbanization of Military Bases in California. Environmental Justice 8(1): 1–5. DOI: 10.1089/env.2014.0014.x
Dillon, Lindsey. "Race, waste, and space: Brownfield redevelopment and environmental justice at the Hunters Point Shipyard." Antipode: A Radical Geography Journal 46, no. 5 (2014): 1205-1221.
Thank you very much, for everyone who is interested I would like to point out that there is a section on the above mentioned website about slavery in Russia and Central Asia, with some selected bibliography of primary sources and scholarly literature.
Dear colleagues,
Hello all,
I teach an online environmental history course, 2nd year and mostly non-majors, that I need to freshen up. This fall I will revise a unit on the connections between racialization and environmental justice (or lack thereof). Do you have any recommendations of readings and/or videos that you've had especially good success with that gets at those issues, perhaps with a concise case study?
Also, if there an online archive of primary sources that would be good for students to use to do their own research on the topic?
Any help is much appreciated!
