Suggested Readings
The Center for Social and Environmental Justice strives to educate students and the community about Environmental and Social Justice issues. These readings are a great place to start for anyone interested in finding out more about issues surrounding social and environmental justice
Environmental Justice
Bullard, Robert, ed., Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots
Bullard, Robert, ed., Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality (1990)
Bullard, Robert, ed., Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (1994)
Setterberg, Fred and Lonny Shavelson, Toxic Nation: The Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination (1993)
National Law Journal, "Special Issues: Unequal Protection and the Racial Divide" in Environmental Law, September 21, 1992.
Clifford Rechtschaffen and Eileen Gauna, eds.,Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, and Regulation (2002)
Lois Marie Gibbs, Dying from Dioxin (1995)
www.ejnet.org
Gay and Lesbian Rights
Blasius, Mark and Shane Phelan, eds., We are Everywhere: a Historical Sourcebook in Gay and Lesbian Politics (1997)
Cruikshank, Margaret, The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (Revolutionary Thought/Radical Movements) (1992)
D'Emilio, John, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United Staes (1940-1970) (1998)
D'Emilio, John, William B. Turner, Urvashi Vaid, eds., Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy and Civil Rights (2000)
Rimmerman, Craig, From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States (2001)
Rimmerman, Craig, Kenneth D. Wald, Clyde Wilcox, eds., The Politics of Gay Rights.
Chicano and Latino Liberation
Chavez, Ernesto, Mi Raza Primero: Nationalism, Identity and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 (2002)
Ferris, Susan and Richard Sandoval, The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker Movement (1987)
Gonzales, Juan, A History of Latinos in America: A Harvest of Empire (2000)
Gonzales, Manuel G., A History of Mexicans in the United States <.u>(1999)
Munoz, Jr., Carlos, Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement (1989)
Rosales, Francisco Arturo. Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1996)
On the shooting of Jose Mejia Poot in Portland, Oregon
Portland Mercury article
Homelessness in the United States
Baumohl, ed. Jim, Homelessness in America, (Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless)
De Pastino, Todd, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America (2003)
Jencks, Christopher, The Homeless (1996)
Kozol, Jonathan, Rachel and Her Children, Homeless Families in America (1988)
Kuzmer, Kenneth L. Down and Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History (2002)
Homelessness Resources
Nationalhomeless.org
Labor History and Movements
Alinsky, Saul. Reveille for Radicals
Alinsky, Saul, Rules for Radicals
Aronowitz, Stanley, From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future (1998)
Brecher, Jeremy, Strike! (1997)
Bronfenbrenner, Kate, et al, eds. Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies (1998)
Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream(2000) Green, James, The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth Century America
(1998) Gutman, Herbert, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (1987)
Jones, Jacqueline, American Work: Four Centuries Black and White Labor (1986)
Kapstein, Ethan B., Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World Economy (1999)
Kessler-Harris, Alice., Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning in the U.S. (1983)
Leab, Daniel J., ed. The Labor History Reader, Articles from Labor History Journal by Distinguished Labor Historians (1985)
Levitt, Martin Jay, Confessions of a Union Buster (1993)
O Farrell, Brigid and Joyce L. Kornbluh, Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 (1996)
Prieto, Norma Iglesias, Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladoras: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana (1997)
Ross, Andrew, No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers (1999)
Shipler, David K.,"The Working Poor: Invisible in America." (2004)
Turkel, Studs, Working (1997 Reprint)
Wallach, Lori and Michelle Sforza, eds. Whose Trade Organization? (1999)
Zieger, Robert H. American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985 (1994)
Zinn, Howard: A People's History of the United States (1999-20th edition)
Labor History Online Study Guide
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