Environmental harms come to bear on human lives and environmental challenges are inseparable from social justice issues and concerns. This lecture considers examples of environmental injustice - toxic distribution and exposure, accidents and disasters, regulatory failures, barriers to political participation, and the commodification of land and labor - as presented in the literatures of racialized American communities. The literatures of African, Indigenous, Latino/a and Asian American communities also provide examples of contemporary responses to environmental inequalities including grassroots local and international advocacy, climate justice, food justice, ecofeminism, and Julian Agyeman’s concept of “just sustainabilities.”