Selected books
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Food Justice
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. -
Addressing Environmental and Food Justice: Toward Dismantling the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Call Number: e-bookEssays on the intersections between the school to prison pipeline, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice. -
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability
Call Number: e-bookDocuments how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives. -
Environmental Justice and Farm Labor
Addresses key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States, including justice-related issues facing farmers and laborers on farms; how history and policy have impacted them; and the opportunities and leverage points for change in improving justice outcomes. -
Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Call Number: e-bookAn examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists. -
Food Justice Now!
Call Number: e-bookA rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates and the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system. -
More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change
Call Number: e-bookExplores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the nonprofit industrial complex. -
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Analyzes and challenges the ways in which “metabolic syndrome” has become a major biomedical category that medical researchers have created to better understand the risks high blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat, and cholesterol pose to people. -
Farming While Black
Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture."