Background and Context

Colonialism

• Glen Coulthard – Red Skin, White Masks: resisting the colonial politics of recognition
• Indigenizing Restoration: Indigenous Lands before Urban Parks
• SOURCE: Decolonization is Not a Metaphor
• SOURCE: Architecture on Colonized Land
• Nick Estes, Our History is the Future
• Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States
• Gerald Horne, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ixy-LcO82UOM-_rsOWRwm0nMVPH_GmO6NV4WYIxWX8c/edit?usp=sharing
• Duneier, M. (2016). Ghetto: The invention of a place, the history of an idea. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. http://us.macmillan.com/ghetto/mitchellduneier (Shows how the American Black and Brown colony was created and is maintained.)
• Hayes, C. (2017). A Colony In a Nation. W.W. Norton. (A journalist, but the title is a powerful reminder that some parts of American cities are colonized spaces)

 

Segregation

• Rothstein, R. (2017). The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright Publishing Corporation. (A classic already.)
• Sharene Razack (ed) Race, Space, and the Law
• Anthony Pietella, Not in My Neighborhood (Baltimore Specific)
• SOURCE: The Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Systemic Racism in Urban Environments
• SOURCE: Eco-Apartheid Is Real
• SOURCE: Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change 
• Ecology of Segregation Papers
• Brown, L. T. (2021). The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America. JHU Press. (Formerly of Morgan State in Baltimore — generally applicable, but much depth on Baltimore which has been a pioneer in cycles of anti-Black segregation. An example of deep scholarship and a Black voice. A nice trope of his is that redlining isn’t something only in the past.)
• Locke, D. H., Hall, B., Grove, J. M., Pickett, S. T. A., Ogden, L. A., Aoki, C., Boone, C. G., & O’Neil-Dunne, J. P. M. (2021). Residential housing segregation and urban tree canopy in 37 US Cities. Npj Urban Sustainability, 1(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00022-0 (Some work from our own group. Also points to redlining as a past and present environmental harm via segregation.)
• Hackworth, J. (2019). Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt (p. 336 Pages). Columbia University Press. (Important for showing how segregation as process and constraint are not just a within-city thing, but that it operates via differentiation and concentration of power in suburbs, extra-urban counties, and conservative state legislatures that constrain city resources and authority.)

Uneven Exposure to Hazards / Uneven Environmental Development

• Classic EJ lit
• Critical EJ lit
• Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice
• Infrastructure histories more broadly

 

Dispossession

• SOURCE: The Story of Seneca Village
• SOURCE: The Philadelphia Urban Renewal Project
• SOURCE: St. Louis Parks & Memorial Plaza
• History of Fort Reno in Washington DC
• Mark David Spence – Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks