Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang, 1996).
Julie Sze, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (MIT, 2006)
Chip Jacobs, Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles (Overlook, 2008)
Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (California, 2007)
Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge, 2001)
Steve Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor (MIT, 2006)
Additional Readings will be posted on the course’s Moodle website