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This is a growing list of resources related to promoting equity, inclusion, and cultural relevance in outdoor science and environmental education organizations.
We often don't hear about the people of color who have shaped America's natural spaces—and we still have a long way to go when it comes to representation in environmental and adventure media. Carolyn Finney, a professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, explains how we can do better.
I didn’t think the outdoors were for me. I was wrong.
Dorceta Taylor, professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, talks about her new report about environmental groups' failure to diversify.
A story of cultural interpretation--and misappropriation--at Glacier National Park.
The story of how Rue Mapp founded Outdoor Afro, the historical context in which we are all residing, and the lessons and realizations she's had along the way.
A park ranger who's popularized the #AsianOutsider hashtag explains how he sees the outdoors movement diversifying in the Bay Area.
Jedediah Purdy traces the racist, eugenic roots of the early American environmental movement, which was influenced by figures like Madison Grant.
1970s scholars posited that an “apartheid ecology” excluded people of color from environmentalism. Were they right?
Facing a new White House administration led by Donald Trump, who has proven himself hostile to the idea of interracial harmony and cultural pluralism, environmental leaders recently signed an accord pledging their allegiance to civil rights and social justice.
The story of how tree-hugging got white-washed.
To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation―until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction.
Written for classroom teachers, but with takeaways for educators of all types.
A series of research and practices briefs related to equity and teaching.
How to move beyond conflating safety with comfort in order to help group participants authentically engage in conversations about equity, inclusion, and social justice.
This is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations. Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking. They are damaging to both people of color and to white people. Organizations that are people of color led or a majority people of color can also demonstrate many damaging characteristics of white supremacy culture.
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress. Although white racial insulation is somewhat mediated by social class (with poor and working class urban whites being generally less racially insulated than suburban or rural whites), the larger social environment insulates and protects whites as a group through institutions, cultural representations, media, school textbooks, movies, advertising, and dominant discourses. Racial stress results from an interruption to what is racially familiar. In turn, whites are often at a loss for how to respond in constructive ways., as we have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that that would allow for constructive engagement across racial divides. leading to what I refer to as White Fragility. White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium. This book explicates the dynamics of White Fragility and how we might build our capacity in the on-going work towards racial justice.
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America
The Equity, Inclusion, and Justice department website
Join Us in This Walk through the World Together by Nellis Kennedy-Howard--the Sierra Club’s vision, goals, and guiding principles for equity, inclusion, and justice
2017 Equity Department Annual Report--Cool example of what Sierra Club did throughout the year and of being transparent about talking about it.
Stories on the Outdoor Afro website
At Youth Outside, we believe that meaningful outdoor experiences can have a major impact on young people's lives. We work to ensure that youth who are underrepresented in the outdoors have the opportunity to connect with the outdoors in culturally relevant and inclusive ways by removing systemic barriers connected to dominant culture, institutions, and power dynamics. Our monthly blog, #DifficultTerrain, asks the hard questions and sparks the difficult conversations about the need for equity and inclusion in the outdoor recreation and environmental fields.
people + environment: insights and resources for a more socially and environmentally just world
We strive to ensure that the lived experience of all youth is honored as part of the outdoor experience. We provide grantmaking, capacity-building and training to promote healthy lives and inspire future champions of the planet.
PGM ONE convenes emerging and established professionals of the global majority who work in the environmental and outdoor movement to share, learn, collaborate, heal, celebrate, build community, find support, and sharpen their analysis of racial equity in their fields.
We harness the power of racial & ethnic diversity to transform the U.S. environmental movement by developing leaders, catalyzing change within institutions, and building alliances.
An often untold history of National Parks.
