Asthma

n. Difficulty of breathing; spec. a disease of respiration, characterized by intermittent paroxysms of difficult breathing, with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, cough, and expectoration.

PodcastsKelley, Hilton. "The Smell of Money: One Man's Fight to Clear the Air in his Hometown." Down to Earth Podcast, EarthJustice, June 2014. https://earthjustice.org/audio/down-to-earth-the-smell-of-money.

Texts and other related media


Gray, Stephen F. “COVID-19 Puts Structural Racism On Full Display — Will We Finally Do Something to Correct It?” Next City, May 11, 2020. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/covid-19-puts-structural-racism-on-full-display
Hutton, Jane. "Breathing with Trees: London Plane Trees from Rikers Island to Seventh Avenue, 1959." In Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements, 144-85. 1st ed. Routledge, 2020. Motavvef, Athena. “7 Reasons Why Asthma is an Environmental Justice Crisis.” WE ACT for Environmental Justice, May 7, 2017. https://www.weact.org/2017/05/7-reasons-asthma-environmental-justice-crisis/
Taylor, Dorceta. Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility. New York: New York University Press, 2014

Thomas Jr., Wilbur L. “Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities, 1970” in Wells, Christopher W, and Sutter, Paul S. Environmental Justice in Postwar America. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018: 99-103.
UWA Press. “Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader.” Image. University of Washington Press, July 2018. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295743691/environmental-justice-in-postwar-america/