Thursday, November 21

From Environmental Racism toward Environmental Justice

1. Cole, Luke and Sheila Foster. 2001. Chapter 2, “The Political Economy of Environmental Racism.” In From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: NYU Press.
2. Pulido, Laura. 2016. “Geographies of Race and Ethnicity, II: Environmental Racism, Racial Capitalism and State-Sanctioned Violence.” Progress in Human Geography 41, no. 4: 524–33.
   
3. Sicotte, Diane. 2016. “Introduction" and Chapter 6, “Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region,” In From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
   
4. CRCQL Why Is Incineration Toxic? 
5. Podcast, Chester is Rising | RSS.com Podcasting
6. Andrew O’Reilly, “She’s Taking Out the Trash,” Patagonia, 2019.
7. Sarah Lomax-Reese, “We Can’t Breathe,” EcoWurd, 2019.
   
8. Kamau Bell, Toxic America, July 2019,   28:40 (final section on Chester and Covanta)
9. Frank Kummer, "For 30 years, she has fought a waste-to-energy plant in Chester City: ‘We don’t have a choice,’" The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 23, 2021.
   
10. Video:  , 1997. 

Guest Speakers: Ms. Zulene Mayfield, CRCQL and Prof. Giovanna Di Chiro, Swarthmore College