Racial Justice & Geology Resources

This is a collection of articles, books, and resources that focus on Racial Justice and Geoscience and/or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) topics.  This page was initially curated by Jane Willard, PG, CPG. Additions to this page may be sent to [email protected] and will be screened before publishing.

Articles

  1. Ali, H.N., Sheffield, S.L., Bauer, J.E., et. al. An Actionable Anti-Racism Plan for Geoscience Organizations. Nature Communications, vol. 12, 2021. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23936-w.

  2. Behl, M., et. al. Changing the Culture of Coastal Ocean, and Marine Sciences: Strategies for Individual and Collective Actions. Oceanography, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 53-60, 2021. Available online at https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.307.

  3. Calma, Justine. Colonialism Still Influences the Earth Sciences Today - and That's a Big Problem for Research. The Verge, January 4, 2022. Available online at https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22865758/decolonizing-earth-sciences-paleontology-fossil-record.

  4. Chavis, Benjamin. Toxic Waste and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites. United Church of Christ, Commission for Racial Justice, 1987. Available online at /https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1310/ML13109A339.pdf.gov/docs/ML1310/ML13109A339.pdf.

  5. Cooperdock, E.H.G., et. al. Counteracting Systemic Bias in the Lab, Field, and Classroom. AGU Advances, vol. 2, issue 1, March 2021. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000353.

  6. Dutt, Kueli. Race and Racism in the Geosciences. Nature Geoscience, vol. 13, 2020, pp. 2-3. Available online at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0519-z. This article uses data collected by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI), of which AIPG is a member organization, in their 2016 Status of the Geoscience Workforce publication. The newer 2018 Status of the Geoscience Workforce publication was released in March 2020: https://www.americangeosciences.org/news/agi-publishes-2018-status-geoscience-workforce-report.

  7. Funk, Cary and Parker, Kim. Women and Men in STEM Often at Odds Over Workplace Equity. Pew Research Center, January 2018. (See Section 4 - Blacks in STEM Jobs are Especially Concerned about Diversity and Discrimination in the Workplace). Available online at https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/09/blacks-in-stem-jobs-are-especially-concerned-about-diversity-and-discrimination-in-the-workplace/.

  8. Goldberg, Emma. Earth Science has a Whiteness Problem. New York Times, Dec. 23, 2019. Available online at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/science/earth-science-diversity-education.html.

  9. Keisling, B., et. al. Does Our Vision of Diversity Reduce Harm and Promote Justice. GSA Today, vol. 30, issue 10, pp. 64-65, October 2020. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG429GW.1.

  10. Lammy, David and Bapna, Manish. There is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice. Time Ideas, May 3, 2021. Available online at https://time.com/6017907/climate-emergency-racial-justice/. 

  11. Lee, Charles. Confronting Disproportionate Impacts and Systemic Racism in Environmental Policy. Environmental Law Reporter, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 10207-10225, March 2021. Available online at https://www.eli.org/sites/default/files/docs/elr_pdf/51.10207.pdf.

  12. McKibben, Bill. Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice: What is a "Just Transition," anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.  Yes! magazine, Aug 18, 2017. Available online at https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/just-transition/2017/08/18/climate-justice-is-racial-justice-is-gender-justice/.

  13. Mills, James Edward. Here's How National Parks are Working to Fight Racism. National Geographic Travel, June 23, 2020. Available online (possible paywall) at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/article/more-diversity-how-to-make-national-parks-anti-racist.

  14. Nyblade, M., and McDonald, Jenn. Recognizing Geology's Colonial History for Better Policy Today. EOS, 2021, vol. 102. Available online at https://eos.org/science-updates/recognizing-geologys-colonial-history-for-better-policy-today.

  15. Of Rocks and Social Justice. Nature Geoscience, vol. 9, 2016, pp. 797. Available online at https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2836.

  16. O'Connell, Suzanne and Homes, Mary Anne. Obstacles to the Recruitment of Minorities into the Geosciences: A Call to Action. GSA Today, June 2011. Available online at https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/21/6/article/i1052-5173-21-6-52.htm.

  17. Purdy, Jedediah. Environmentalism's Racist History. The New Yorker, August 13, 2015. Available online (paywall) at https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history.

  18. Root, Tik. Meet the People Behind a Movement to Diversity Our National Parks. National Geographic, February 1, 2017. Available online (paywall) at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/diversity-in-national-parks.

  19. Semken, Steven and Geraghty Ward, Emily, et. al. Place-Based Education in Geoscience: Theory, Research, Practice, and Assessment. Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 542-562. Available online at https://urgeoscience.org/.

  20. Taylor, Dorceta E. The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations. Green 2.0, July 2014. More information on the publisher's webpage at https://www.diversegreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/FullReport_Green2.0_FINAL.pdf.

  21. Vakil, Sepehr and Ayers, Rick. The Racial Politics of STEM Education in the USA: Interrogations And Explorations. Race Ethnicity and Education, vol. 22, no. 4, 2019, pp. 449-458. Available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2019.1592831.

  22. Worland, Justin. Why the Larger Climate Movement is Finally Embracing the Fight Against Environmental Racism. Time, July 9, 2020. Available online at https://time.com/5864704/environmental-racism-climate-change/.

 

Interviews

  1. Isaacson, Walter. "Robert Bullard: How Environmental Racism Shapes the US" from Amanpour and Company, March 3, 2020, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/robert-bullard-how-environmental-racism-shapes-the-us/.

  2. Taylor, Dorceta et al. "The Challenge of Diversity in the Environmental Movement, with Dorceta Taylor" from Resources Radio, June 23, 2020, https://www.resourcesmag.org/resources-radio/challenge-diversity-environmental-movement-dorceta-taylor-rebroadcast/ (podcast and transcript available).

  3. Calma, Justine. "Colonialism Still Influences the Earth Sciences Today - and That's a Big Problem for Research" from The Verge, January 4, 2022, https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22865758/decolonizing-earth-sciences-paleontology-fossil-record.

 

Books

  1. Martin, Bohle. Exploring Geoethics, Ethical Implications, Societal Contexts, and Professional Obligations of the Geosciences. Palgrave Pivot Publications, 2019 (ISBN 973-3-030-12009-2). More information online at https://www.geoethics.org/exploring-geoethics.

  2. Bullard, Robert D. and Wright, Beverly. The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities. NYU Press, 2012. More information on the publisher's webpage at https://nyupress.org/9780814799932/the-wrong-complexion-for-protection/.

  3. McNair, Tia Brown, et al. From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education. Wiley, 2020. More information on the publisher's webpage at https://www.wiley.com/en-us/From+Equity+Talk+to+Equity+Walk%3A+Expanding+Practitioner+Knowledge+for+Racial+Justice+in+Higher+Education-p-9781119237914.

  4. Taylor, Dorceta E. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection. Duke University Press, 2016. More information on the publisher's webpage at https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-rise-of-the-american-conservation-movement.

  5. Taylor, Dorceta E. Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollutions, and Residential Mobility. New York University Press, 2014. More information on the publisher's webpage at https://nyupress.org/9781479861781/toxic-communities/.

  6. Tyson, Neil deGrasse. The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist. 2nd Rev. ed., Prometheus, 2004. More information on the Amazon page at https://www.amazon.com/Sky-Not-Limit-Adventures-Astrophysicist/dp/159102188X.

  7. Yusoff, Kathryn. Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. More information on the publisher's webpage at https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-billion-black-anthropocenes-or-none.

  8. Lipman, Joanne. That's What She Said: What Men Need Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together. William Morrow,  2018. More information on the Amazon Page at https://www.amazon.com/Thats-What-She-Said-Together/dp/0062437216. 

  9. Nerburn, Kent. The Wolf at Twilight An Indian Elder’s Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows. New World Library Publisher, 2009. More information: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-wolf-at-twilight-an-indian-elders-journey-through-a-land-of-ghosts-and-shadows_kent-nerburn/294153/#edition=5115581&idiq=5096110.

  10. Nerburn, Kent. The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo A Child, an Elder & the Light from an Ancient Sky. New World Library Publisher, 2013. More information: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-girl-who-sang-to-the-buffalo-a-child-an-elder-and-the-light-from-an-ancient-sky_kent-nerburn/1638691/#edition=7593945&idiq=5508230.

  11. Peacock, Thomas. The WOLF’S TRAIL An OJIBWE STORY TOLD BY WOLVES.  HOLY COW! Press, 2020. More Information: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-wolfs-trail-an-ojibwe-story-told-by-wolves_thomas-d-peacock/.

  12. Nerburn, Kent. THE WISDOM OF NATIVE AMERICANS. New World Library Publisher, 1999. More information: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-wisdom-of-the-native-americans_kent-nerburn.

  13. Neihardt, John G. BLACK ELK SPEAKS THE COMPLETE EDITION. University of Nebraska Press 2014. More Information: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Elk-Speaks-John-Neihardt/dp/0803283911.

  14. Ray, Kristofer and DeSanto Brady. UNDERSTANDING AND TEACHING NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY. The University of Wisconsin, 2022. More Information: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5747.htm.

  15. Westernman, Gwen & White, Bruce. Mni Sota Makoce THE LAND of the DAKOTA. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012. More Information: https://shop.mnhs.org/products/mni-sota-makoce/

  16. Morton, Ron & Gawboy Carl. Talking Rocks Geology and 10,000 Years of Native American Tradition in the Lake Superior Region. September 23,2003. More Information: https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Rocks-American-Tradition-Superior..

  17. Gawboy, Carl & Morton, Ron. Talking Sky Ojibwe Constellations as a Reflection of Life on the land. More Information: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=talking+sky+ojibwe+constellations.

 

Other Sources

  1. Harris, Johnny, "Why All the World Maps are Wrong." YouTube, commentary by Johnny Harris, December 2, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIID5FDi2JQ.

  2. Greaser, Holly, "Unconscious Bias: Perspectives from the Private Sector." American Geosciences Institute's Geoscience Online Learning Initiative (GOLI), October 2, 2021, https://www.americangeosciences.org/webinars/unconscious-bias-perspectives-private-sector.

  3. Gatewood, Brooking, July 9, 2020, From White Environmentalism to Anti-racism, Episode 27,The Indisposable Podcast, Upstream, https://upstreamsolutions.org/podcast/from-white-environmentalism-to-anti-racism.

 

Interactive Resources

  1. Hanson-Aqwatu, Ashley and Damirqi, Aishah, Environmental Racism in the Twin Cities - A geographical look at the racial divides ingrained in our neighborhoods, and the impact they have on our community. Story Map, December 11, 2020. Direct link: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4b4f5905fd494a2dac8cb5d52c1fb92a?play=true&speed=medium.

  2. Hennepin County's Mary Ann Key Book Club: 

    https://www.hclib.org/programs/books-reading/mary-ann-key-book-club?_ga=2.267219342.1478031760.1621520226-582825761.1621520226.

  3. Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College: New GeoContext Collection Provides a Model for Incorporating Social and Political Context in Geoscience Higher Education. Direct link to GeoContext teaching materials.

  4. Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE): https://urgeoscience.medium.com/unlearning-racism-in-geoscience-1f40aa32216e (general information about the program) & https://urgeoscience.org/ (the curriculum and other resources)

 

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