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.1 Collection of resources from UW

A.3 Online articles & blogs

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

A.9 Black-owned businesses