Environmental-justice scholarship centered in social sciences had limited impact on environmental literary studies.

Evidence

Two critical texts that boosted the academic credibility of the environmental justice concerns of American minorities were Benjamin Chavis, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States of America (Washington D.C. : Commission for Racial Justice, 1987) and Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (1990; rpt. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000). However, the influence of these texts in American universities was centered in the social sciences and had at best a very limited impact on the conceptual or imaginative priorities of environmental literary studies in the United States. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1358