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Addressing Environmental and Food Justice toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Poisoning and Imprisoning Youth

This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers, parents, youth, social workers, and youth advocates are focusing on curriculum, discipline policies, policing practices, incarceration demographics, and diversity of staff, the authors of this book argue that even if all those issues are addressed, healthy food and living environment are fundamental to the emancipation of youth.

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Black Women’s and Environmental Racism

Agency is a sociological concept used to refer to the power and autonomy of social actors to think and behave beyond
structural constraints. My scholarship explores Black women’s agency and social movement towards environmental justice (EJ). While investigating the impacts of environmental racism is important, it is also useful to understand how women living in environmentally degraded environments. My work explores how they manage their lives, understand the tools that they deploy to do so, and how they act as agents of change to transform their communities. As interdisciplinary scholar my theoretical roots are derived from Black feminism, environmental sociology, Black studies, and geography. My methods have included both quantitative and qualitative approaches, including geographic information system (GIS) modeling, community-based mapping, focus groups, archival work, and photovoice.

Publications

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Ducre, Kishi Animashaun. “Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History by Sally E. Svenson.” New York History 100.2 (2019): 314-316.

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Ducre, Kishi Animashaun. “The Black feminist spatial imagination and an intersectional environmental justice.” Environmental Sociology 4.1 (2018): 22-35.

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Lane, Sandra D., Robert A. Rubinstein, Dessa Bergen-Cico, Timothy Jennings-Bey, Linda Stone Fish, David A. Larsen, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Tracey Reichert Schimpff, Kishi Animashaun Ducre, and Jonnell Allen Robinson. “Neighborhood trauma due to violence: a multilevel analysis.” Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 28, no. 1 (2017): 446-462.

Book cover for School to Prison Pipeline by Kishi Ducre

Nocella, A. J., K. Animashaun Ducre, and J. L. Lupinacci. Addressing environmental and food justice toward dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

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Ducre, K. Animashaun. “The Political Economy of Overcoming Infertility.” The Motherhood Business: Consumption, Communication, and Privilege (2015): 52.

Book cover for A Place We Call Home by Kishi Ducre

Ducre, K. Animashaun. A place we call home: Gender, race, and justice in Syracuse. Syracuse University Press, 2012.

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Ducre, K. Animashaun, and Eli Moore. “Extending the time line of environmental justice claims: Redlining map digitization project.” Environmental Practice 13.4 (2011): 325-339.

Book cover for Seeking Higher Ground

Ducre, K. Animashaun. “Hurricane Katrina as an elaboration on an ongoing theme: Racialized spaces in Louisiana.” Seeking higher ground: The Hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. 65-74.

Book cover for Echoes from the Poisoned Well

Ducre, K. Animashaun. “Racialized spaces and the emergence of environmental injustice.” Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice (2006): 109-24.

Exhibitions

2018 From the Frontlines: The Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Photo Exhibition, Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties, Riverside City College, Riverside, California (featuring new images related to the Stringfellow Waste Pits Campaign in Riverside County).

2013 Our Community, Our Vision, Our Voices: East Port of Spain Photovoice Exhibition, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, New York, (this exhibition presented for the first time in the US, and was coordinated to take place with the launch of my 2012 book)

2011 Our Community, Our Vision, Our Voices: East Port of Spain Photovoice Exhibition, National Library of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies, July 18 – August 5, 2011.

2007 Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Exhibition as part of the Community Action & Environmental Justice Exhibition, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, New York, July 28 – August 15, 2007.

Southside Photovoice Project

Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, New York, July 28 – August 15, 2007. This exhibition was part of the Community Action and Environmental Justice Exhibition cited above.

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center, Syracuse University, September 17 – October 19, 2007.

A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race, and Justice in Syracuse (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)

A Place We Call Home chronicles this photography project and bears witness not only to the environmental injustice experienced by these women but also to the ways in which they maintain dignity and restore order in a community where they have traditionally had little control.

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