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Strike For Black Lives + Resources from PSG Members

On Friday, along with a statement from the Pacific Seabird Group (PSG) Executive Council responding to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, we asked for your thoughts and suggestions on improving diversity, equity and inclusion, within our own scientific community.

The response was impressive – thank you to all who have shared your ideas and resources. Thanks also for the positive feedback to PSG EXCO’s statement and the efforts of the PSG Communications Committee. Please continue to share your thoughts!

In light of the #ShutDownSTEM movement, which calls for today, 10 June, to be a day of education about, action against, and healing from anti-black racism in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. As a first step, we want to share the reading list compiled from the responses of your PSG peers. These materials formed and transformed your colleagues’ thinking about race, in science, and more broadly.

The list below is by no means exhaustive. It is organized alphabetically by media type, and lead author’s last name.
PSG supports Black lives and Black scientists. We encourage members to stand in solidarity and be active participants in the #ShutDownSTEM, #Strike4BlackLives and #ShutDownAcademia movements.

There is no better time to become more educated on these issues and take action to promote real change.

Rob Suryan
chair@pacificseabirdgroup.org
2020 PSG Chair

Blogs
Mélise Edwards: Neuroscience & Behavior PhD Student– Mélise Edwards, WordPress.com
My Role in a Social Change Ecosystem: A Mid-Year Check-In – Deepa Iyer, Medium
 
Books and printed works
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander, New Press
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People – Mahzarin Banaji, Delacorte Press
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide – Carol Anderson, Bloomsbury Publishing
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin, Vintage
From the Browder File: 22 Essay on the African American Experience – Anthony Browder, Institute of Karmic Guidance
Rage Becomes Her – Soraya Chemaly, Simon and Schuster
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates, Random House
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower – Brittney Cooper, St Martin’s Press
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth – Dána-Ain Davis, New York University Press
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing – Joy DeGruy, JoyDeGruy Publications
White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism – Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press
An Indigenous Peopls’ History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz, Beacon Press
The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois, Dover Thrift Editions
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do – Jennifer L. Eberhard, Penguin Books
Black Skin, White Masks – Frantz Fanon, Grove Paperback
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors – Carolynn Finney, University of North Carolina Press
Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies – Nazgol Ghandnoosh, The Sentencing Project
This Book is Anti-racist – Tiffany Jewell, Quarto
How We Fight for Our Lives – Saeed Jones, Simon and Schuster
How to be an Antiracist – Ibram Kendi, One World
Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram Kendi, Nation Books
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants – Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions
Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde, Crossing Press
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope – DeRay Mckesson, Penguin Books
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland – Jonathan M. Metzl, Basic Books
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America – Kahlil Muhammad, Harvard University Press
So You Want to Talk about Race – Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Chante the World, Become a Good Ancestor – Laayla Saad, Sourcebooks
Orientalism – Edward Said, Vintage
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples – Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Zed Books
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race – Jesmyn Ward, Scribner
 
Essays, news, commentary, and opinion pieces
“How Am I Going to Be Perceived as a Black Man With Binoculars?”: J. Drew Lanham on Christian Cooper and Rules for the Black Birdwatcher – Dan Adler, Vanity Fair
#BlackBirdersWeek takes on systemic racism – Emily Benson
In These Times of Racial Strife, A White Professor Explores The Prevalence of ‘White Fragility’ – Nick Chiles, Atlanta Black Star
The Case for Reparations – Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Seeing Himself in the Science: Ecologist Christopher Schell Believes that Tapping into Who He Is as a Person Makes his Research Better – Julie Davidow, UW Magazine
Are Unpaid Internships Barriers to Success for Some Students of Color? – Emily Deruy, The Atlantic
Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race – Reni Eddo-Lodge, The Guardian
I’m a black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, The Washington Post
Diversity Training is in Demand. Does it Work? – Steve Kolowich, Chronicle of Higher Education
Straight Talk for White Men – Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
No More Money for the Police – Philip V. McHarris and Thenjiwe McHarris, New York Times
Microagression Is the New Racism on Campus – John McWhorter, Time
Black Bodies, Green Spaces: Why is the image of an environmentally conscious African-American still hard for us to picture? – Tiya Miles, New York Times
In Promoting Campus Diversity, Don’t Dismiss Religion – Eboo Patel, The Chronicle of Higher Education
What a World Without Cops Would Look Like – Madison Pauly, Mother Jones
Faculty Diversity: We Still have a Lot to Learn – Lucinda Roy, The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Best States for Women in America in 11 Maps and Charts – Lucinda Roy, The Washington Post
Microagressions: More than Just Race – Derald Sue, Psychology Today
Fake Cover Letters Expose Discrimination against Disabled – Noam Schieber, New York Times
Racial Disparities in Higher Education – Beckie Supiano, The Chronicle of Higher Education
White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy – Teaching Tolerance
 
Fiction
Octavia Butler
Zora Neale Hurston
N. K. Jemisin
Toni Morrison
Claudia Rankine
Angie Thomas
Jesmyn Ward
 
Journal articles
Inequalities, institutions, and forest commons – Krister Andersson, Global Environmental Change
“The White Space” – Elijah Anderson, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Framing Open Educational Practices from a Social Justice Perspective – Maha Bali, Journal of Interactive Media in Education
The haves, the have-nots, and the health of everyone: the relationship between social inequality and environmental quality – Lara Cushing, Annual Review of Public Health
“You Won’t Believe What They Said in Class Today”: Professors’ Reflections on Student Resistance in Multicultural Education Courses – Alyssa Dunn, Multicultural Perspective
Volunteer field technicians are bad for wildlife ecology– Ariel Fournier, Wildlife Society Bulletin
Why the Nonexistence of Biological Races Does Not Mean the Nonexistence of Racism – Joseph Graves Jr., American Behavioral Scientist
Signaling Inclusivity in Undergraduate Biology Courses through Deliberate Framing of Genetics Topics Relevant to Gender Identity, Disability, and Race – Karen Hales, Life Sciences Education
Justice and conservation: The need to incorporate recognition – Adrian Martin, Biological Conservation.
Nice White Men or Social Justice Allies?: Using Critical Race Theory to Examine How White Male Faculty and Administrators Engage in Ally Work – Lori Patton, Race Ethnicity and Education
Concealing protocols: conservation, Indigenous survivance, and the dilemmas of visibility – June Mary Rubis, Social and Cultural Geography
Beyond parks and reserves: The ethics and politics of conservation with a case study from Perú – Sahotra Sarkar, Biological Conservation
Ka mua, ka muri: the inclusion of mātauranga Māori in New Zealand ecology – Priscilla Wehi, New Zealand Ecological Society
 
Online Guides and Resources
The Anti-Racist Reading List – Ibram Kendi
Talking About Race – National Museum of African American History and Culture
Teaching Difference, Power and Discrimination – Oregon State University
An Essential Reading Guide For Fighting Racism – Arianna Rebolini
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice – Corinne Shutack
White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy – Teaching Tolerance
 
Videos
Eye of the Storm (1970) – Jane Elliott
Let’s get to the root of racial injustice – Megan Ming Francis
Jane Elliott’s “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” Anti-Racism Exercise – OWN Network
Manu Platt BMES Diversity Award Lecture – Manu Platt
Mapping Police Violence – Samuel Sinyangw
How to Raise a Black Son in America – Clint Smith III
The Danger of Silence – Clint Smith III
Putting Racism on the Table – Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, Leadership Greater Washington
Birding while Black: A Candid Conversation 1 – National Audubon Society
 
Podcasts
Intersectionality Matters! – African American Policy Forum
Code Switch – National Public Radio
The Stacks – Traci Thomas
 
Short courses
21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge – Eddie Moore, Jr.