A Resources on JEDI in STEM
Here are some resources to help educate ourselves about racism and colonialism in STEM and society as a whole, and things we can do to help change the status quo.
A.3 Online articles & blogs
Jasmine Robert’s piece on white supremacy in academia
Rian Roberson’s piece on white allies
Rian Roberson’s piece on Black History 2020: Living Legends
A.4 Books
How to Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment by Leticia Nieto
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menaken
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy
A.5 Journal articles
Asai, D. J. (2020). Race Matters. Cell, 181(4), 754–757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.044
Beltran, R. S., Marnocha, E., Race, A., Croll, D. A., Dayton, G. H., & Zavaleta, E. S. (n.d.). Field courses narrow demographic achievement gaps in ecology and evolutionary biology. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6300
Blosser, E. (2020). An examination of Black women’s experiences in undergraduate engineering on a primarily white campus: Considering institutional strategies for change. Journal of Engineering Education, 109(1), 52–71. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20304
Dutt, K. (2020). Race and racism in the geosciences. Nature Geoscience, 13(1), 2–3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0519-z
Fovet, F. (2020). Beyond Novelty: “Innovative” Accessible Teaching as a Return to Fundamental Questions Around Social Justice and Reflective Pedagogy. https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/beyond-novelty/252132
Gautreaux, M. (2018). Towards shared understandings: An exploration of the literature on inclusive teaching and its implication for building Inclusive Excellence at UBC.
Kang, S. P., Chen, Y., Svihla, V., Gallup, A., Ferris, K., & Datye, A. K. (n.d.). Guiding change in higher education: an emergent, iterative application of Kotter’s change model. Studies in Higher Education, 20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1741540
Kim, S. S., & Gelfand, M. J. (2003). The influence of ethnic identity on perceptions of organizational recruitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 63(3), 396–416. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-8791(02)00043-x
Knaub, A. V, Maier, S. J., & Ding, L. (2020). Changing Culture and Climate to Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Physics Educational Setting. Physics Teacher, 58(5), 352–355. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5145535
O’Brien, L. T., Bart, H. L., & Garcia, D. M. (2020). Why are there so few ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology? Challenges to inclusion and the role of sense of belonging. Social Psychology of Education, 23(2), 449–477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-019-09538-x
Quan, G. M., Corbo, J. C., Finkelstein, N. D., Pawlak, A., Falkenberg, K., Geanious, C., Ngai, C., Smith, C., Wise, S., Pilgrim, M. E., & Reinholz, D. L. (2019). Designing for institutional transformation: Six principles for department-level interventions. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 15(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010141
Reinholz, D. L., Matz, R. L., Cole, R., & Apkarian, N. (2019). STEM Is Not a Monolith: A Preliminary Analysis of Variations in STEM Disciplinary Cultures and Implications for Change. Cbe-Life Sciences Education, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-02-0038
Riegle-Crumb, C., King, B., & Irizarry, Y. (2019). Does STEM Stand Out? Examining Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Persistence Across Postsecondary Fields. Educational Researcher, 48(3), 133–144. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x19831006
Rosa, K., & Mensah, F. M. (2016). Educational pathways of Black women physicists: Stories of experiencing and overcoming obstacles in life. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.020113
Smith, N. S., Côté, I. M., Martinez-Estevez, L., Hind-Ozan, E. J., Quiros, A. L., Johnson, N., Green, S. J., Cornick, L., Shiffman, D., Malpica-Cruz, L., Besch, A. G., & Shiel-Rolle, N. (2017). Diversity and inclusion in conservation: A proposal for a Marine Diversity Network. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4(AUG). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00234
A.6 Videos
TED and TEDx talks about racism and actions to eliminate it
TED and TEDx talks to help you understand racism in America
FISH 513 Cultivating Inclusive Conservation Practices (hosted by Dr. Staci Amburgey) a very informative seminar series that delves into DEI issues in conservation.
A.9 Black-owned businesses
- List of Black-owned businesses in WA from Support Black Owned