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The following materials relate to interbeing, environmental justice, poverty, classism, and other prejudice-related connections. To learn more about an item or to purchase a book, please click on its title. As an Amazon Associate, up to 15% of all book purchases made through Amazon.com (by clicking a link below and ordering the book online) will go toward supporting this web site.
Philosophy of Interbeing
- Chamel, J., & Dansac, Y. (Eds.). (2023). Relating With More-Than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality in a Living World. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Das, S., & Bordoloi, M. (Eds.). (2025). Ecological Interconnections: Critical Readings on Ethics, Sustainability, and Interspecies Communication in Literature and Culture. Lexington Books.
- Grim, J. (Ed.). (2001). Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community. Harvard University Press.
- Gross, M. (2024). Intertwined: From Insects to Icebergs. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Kormos, R. (2024). Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice. The New Press.
- Murchie, G. (1978). The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science and Philosophy (see Chapter 13: “The Interrelatedness of All Creatures,” pp. 344-380). Houghton Mifflin.
- Nhat Hanh, T. (1987). Being Peace. Parallax Press.
- Nhat Hanh, T. (1991). Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life. Bantam Books.
- Nhat Hanh, T. (2020). Interbeing: The 14 Mindfulness Trainings of Engaged Buddhism (4th ed.). Parallax Press.
- Sweeney, L. B. (2001). When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories. Pegasus Communications.
Intersectionality and Intersections
- Coates, R. D., Ferber, A. L., & Brunsma, D. L. (2021). The Matrix of Race: Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality (2nd ed.). Sage Publications.
- Collins, P. H. (2024). Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence. Polity Press.
- Collins, P. H., & Bilge, S. (2020). Intersectionality (2nd ed.). Polity Press.
- Cordeiro-Rodrigues, L., & Mitchell, L. (Eds.). (2019). Animals, Race, and Multiculturalism (paperback ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Crenshaw, K. (2028). On Intersectionality: Essential Writings. The New Press.
- Duran, A. (2022). The Experiences of Queer Students of Color at Historically White Institutions. Routledge.
- Harrison, D. L. (2021). Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. North Atlantic Books.
- Leibman, L. A. (2021). Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family. Oxford University Press.
- Mitchell, D. (Ed.). (2024). Intersectionality and Higher Education: Theory, Research, & Praxis (3rd ed.). Peter Lang.
- Romero, M. (2025). Introducing Intersectionality (2nd ed.). Polity Press.
- Sojka, C. J., & de Vries, K. M. (2025). Transgender Intersections: Race and Gender Through Identities, Interactions, and Systems of Power. Polity Press.
- Taylor, S. (2017). Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. The New Press.
- Toft, A., & Franklin, A. (Eds.). (2021). Young, Disabled and LGBT+: Voices, Identities and Intersections. Routledge.
- Wilkerson, I. (2023). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (trade paperback ed.). Random House.
Environmental Justice
- Barnes, B. R., Fernandes-Jesus, M., Trott, C. D., & Barnwell, G. (Eds.). (2025). Community, Psychology and Climate Justice. Springer.
- Bloomfield, E. F., & Castro-Sotomayor, J. (Eds.). (2025). Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication: Changemakers Respond to Ecological Crises. Michigan State University Press.
- Bullard, R. D. (Ed.). (2005). The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. Sierra Club Books.
- Bullard, R. D. (2018). Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (3rd ed.). Routledge.
- Bullard, R. D., & Wright, B. (2023). The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities (paperback ed.). New York University Press.
- Checker, M. (2020). The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice. New York University Press.
- Coleman Flowers, C. (2022). Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret (paperback ed.). The New Press.
- Coleman Flowers, C. (2025). Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope. Spiegel & Grau.
- Dhofier, L. (Ed.). (2025). The Human Rights of Climate Change. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Gilio-Whitaker, D. (2020). As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock (paperback ed.). Beacon Press.
- Hanna, M. (2019). What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City (trade paperback ed.). One World.
- Hattem, J. (2026). Shelter From the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration. The New Press.
- Malcolm, M., & mohaupt, a. (2025). Climate Justice, Climate Hope: Building a Moral Economy. Fortress Press.
- Penn, M. (2026). Eco Revolution: Climate Justice, Community, and the Fight for Our Planet. Balance.
- Schmitt, M. T., Anjum, G., Clayton, S., & Manning, C. (Eds.). (2026). Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses. Academic Press.
- Shiva, V. (2015). Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (reprint ed.). South End Press.
- Sunstein, C. R. (2026). Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World―and the Future (paperback ed.). The MIT Press.
- Taylor, S. (2024). Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. University of California Press.
- Walker, G. (2012). Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics. Routledge.
- Washington, H. A. (2020). A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (paperback ed.). Little, Brown Spark.
Globalization
- Anshu, A. (Ed.). (2025). Navigating Globalization, Diaspora, Foreign Policy and Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Baylis, J., & Smith, S. (Eds.). (2023). The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (9th ed.). Oxford University Press.
- Eitzen, D. S., & Zinn, M. B. (2012). Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds (3rd ed.). Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
- Friedman, T. L. (2000). The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (newly updated and expanded ed.). Anchor Books.
- Hartman, T. (2004). Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights. Rodale Press.
- Levinson, M. (2021). Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas. Princeton University Press.
- Parreñas, R. S. (2015). Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work (2nd ed.). Stanford University Press.
- Sachs, J. D. (2020). The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology and Institutions. Columbia University Press.
- Stiglitz, J. E. (2018). Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump. W. W. Norton & Company.
Socioeconomic Status and Classism
- Desmond, M. (2017). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Crown.
- Desmond, M. (2024). Poverty, by America (trade paperback ed.). Crown.
- Ehrenreich, B. (2021). Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (20th anniversary ed.). Picador.
- Ehrenreich, B. (2020). Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. Twelve.
- Elliott, A. (2022). Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City (trade paperback ed.). Random House.
- Galor, O. (2023). The Journey of Humanity: A New History of Wealth and Inequality With Implications for Our Future. Dutton.
- Goldblum, J. S., & Shaddox, C. (2022). Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty (paperback ed.). BenBella Books.
- Goldstone, B. (2025). There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Crown.
- Gilbert, D. (2021). The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality (11th ed.). Sage Publications.
- Jones, S. (2026). Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass. Avid Reader Press.
- Kozol, J. (1996). Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation. Harper Perennial.
- Lareau, A. (2024). Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life (2nd ed.). Dev Publishers.
- McVeigh, R., Carbonaro, W., Liu, C., & Silcox, K. (2025). Politics and Privilege: How the Status Wars Sustain Inequality. Columbia University Press.
- Orford, J. (2025). The Psychology of Economic Inequality: Six Reasons Why We Are Failing to Challenge Great Inequalities of Income and Wealth. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wilkerson, I. (2023). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (trade paperback ed.). Random House.