Recommended Environmental and Social Justice Reading

Fall 2024 Recommendation

Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice by Shannon Elizabeth Bell

 

"In this remarkable and unique book, Shannon Bell presents the stories of 12 Appalachian women who became environmental justice activists confronting coal companies when they learned their children, families, and communities were threatened by the coal industry's routine devastation of the region's ecology."

 

Copies can be borrowed from the EOH main office or by contacting Tina Ndoh or Alison Sanders.

You can also get copies from the Pitt library or purchase the book online

Additional Recommendations

Available as e-books from the Pitt Library

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Public Water and COVID-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings

edited by David A. McDonald, Susan Spronk, and Daniel Chavez

Available in Print

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There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities

by Ingrid R.G. Waldron

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