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  2008 Environmental Justice Conference—The Bert G. Kerstetter '66 Ethics and the Environment Lecture Series  
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Aquene Freechild
Animal's People by Indra Sinha (Simon and Schuster)
The Bhopal Reader (Bridget Hanna, Satinath Sarangi, and Ward Morehouse)
Trespass Against Us: Dow Chemical and the Toxic Century (Jack Doyle)

David Schlosberg
Environmental Politics on "Reconceiving Environmental Justice" (2004 article in the journal)

Beverly Wright
(1980) Afro Americans in New York Life and History, 91-93
(1980) The Effects of Locus of Control on the Self-Esteem of Black and White Youth. The Journal of Social Psychology, 3, 301-302.
(1981) Colored Negro Black: Ideological Change and the Civil Rights Movement. Western Journal of Black Studies, 5, 186-198.
(1982) Influences of Self-Esteem: Internal Versus External Control and Racial Group Identification. The Journal of Social and Behavior Sciences, 27, 12-22.
(1984) Social Class and Achievement Motivation. Afro Americans in New York Life and History, 79-91.
(1985) Endangered Environs: Dumping Grounds in a Sunbelt City. Urban Resources, 2, 37-39.
(1985) The Effects of Racial Self-Esteem on the Personal Self-Esteem of Black Youth. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 9, 19-30.
(1986) Black Youth: A Lost Generation. In the State of Black New Orleans (Pp. 47-60). New Orleans: Urban League of Greater New Orleans.
(1986) The Politics of Pollution: Implications for the Black Community. Phylon, 46, 71-78.
(1987) New Faces of Segregation: The Case of New Orleans Public Schools. In the State of Black New Orleans (Pp 41-55). New Orleans: Urban League of Greater New Orleans.
(1987) Blacks and the Environment. The Humbolt Journal of Social Relations, 14 (1, 2), 165-184.
(1988) Environmentalism and the Politics of Equity: Emergent Trends in the Black Community. Mid American Review of Sociology, 21 (2), 21-37.
(1989) Three Generations of Teen Mothers: A Preliminary Report. In the State of Black New Orleans (Pp. 45-74). New Orleans: Urban League of Greater New Orleans.
(1990) Mobilizing the Black Community for Environmental Justice. The Journal of Intergroup Relations, 17 (1), 33-43.
(1990) Toxic Waste and the African-American Community. The Urban League Review, 13 (1-2), 67-75.
(1990) Black Workers at Risk: Jobs for Life or Death. In Dream and Reality: Hofstra University Lecture Series (Pp. 183-201). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
(1990) Blacks in New Orleans: The City That Care Forgot. In Search of the New South: The Black Urban Experience in the 1970s and 1980s (Pp. 45-74). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
(1990) Hazards in the Workplace and Black Health: A Review. Journal of Sociology, 4 (1), 45-74.
(1990) The Effects of Occupational Injury, Illness, and Disease on the Health Status of Black Americans. In the Proceedings of the Michigan Conference on Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards. (Pp. 128-139).
(1991) The Quest for Environmental Equity: Mobilizing the African American Community for Social Change. Society and Natural Resources, 3, 301-311.
(1992) Cleaning Up the Environment: A Question of Equity for Minority Communities. U.S. EPA Journal, 18, 36.
(1993) Environmental Justice For All: Community Perspectives on Health and Research Needs. Toxicology and Industrial Health, 9 (5), 821-841.
(1994) Coping With Poisons in Cancer Alley. In Unequal Protection (pp. 110-129). San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
(1997) New Orleans Under Siege. In Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility (pp. 121-144). Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.
(1997) Confronting Environmental Injustice [Special Issue]. Journal of Race, Gender, and Class, 5, 65-79.
(1998) Endangered Communities: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana Chemical Corridor. Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, 4 (2), 181-191.
(2002) "Social Ecology and Substance Abuse Programs." In Ma, G.X., and Henderson, G., Ethnicity and Substance Abuse, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, pp. 38-55.
(2003) "Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World." in Ageyeman, J., Bullard, R.D., and Evans, B., Race, Politics, and Pollution: Environmental Justice in the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor, Earthscan Publication, MIT Press, pp. 125-145.
(2003) Women's Work. Race, Poverty and the Environmental, 10 (1), 31-32.
(2006) "In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race after Katrina," Russell Sage Foundation, NY, pp 20 and 26.
"Cleaning Up Toxic 'Time Bombs' Left Behind by Katrina," FOCUS Magazine Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina: Health Impacts in Louisiana, Joint Center for Political Studies, Vol. 34, No. 10 (January/February 2006).
Beverly Wright, Chapter 4 "Living and Dying in Louisiana's Cancer Alley."
In Bullard, Robert D., The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books (October 2005).
Beverly Wright and Robert D. Bullard, "Blown Away by Katrina: Rebuilding a 'New' New Orleans," in Robert D. Bullard, Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (MIT Press, forthcoming February 2007).
Beverly Wright and Robert D. Bullard, "Black New Orleans: The Second Disaster After Hurricane Katrina," in Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power and Politics of Place (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2007).
Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, Deadly Waiting Game Beyond Katrina: How Government Actions Endanger the Health and Welfare of African Americans (under review at New York University Press, prospectus submitted in June 2006).
Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, Race, Place and the Environment After Katrina: Looking Back to Look Forward (under development, prospectus submitted to MIT Press November 2006).

Web-Based Articles
Beverly Wright, "Katrina Reveals Environmental Racism's Deadly Force, "New America Media, Commentary, September 21, 2005, http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=74fb2e18f6e1c829ae73181353442a61
Beverly Wright and Robert D. Bullard, "Legacy of Unfairness: Why Some Americans Get Left Behind," September 29, 2005, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/Exec%20Summary%20Legacy.html
Beverly Wright and Robert D. Bullard, "The Real Looting: Katrina Exposes a Legacy of Discrimination and Opens the Door for 'Disaster Capitalism'," SeeingBlack.com, October 11, 2005, http://www.seeingblack.com/2005/x101105/411_oct05.shtml

These links are to books in which Dr. Wright wrote chapters:
The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place, 2007
Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity, 2007
The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, 2005
Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity, 2004
Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, 2003
 

 
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