Resources on Equity and Social Justice

Articles

• Full Moon Rising: Centering Indigenous Voice for the Regeneration of Conservation (2020)

• Hazel M. Johnson, “Mother of the Environmental Justice Movement”

• History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States (2021, March 25)

• Why It Is Important to Know the Story of Filipino-American Larry Itliong (2019, July 24)

• Yuri Kochiyama, Activist And Former World War II Internee, Dies At 93 (2014, June 2)

Videos, Webinars, Films, Documentaries

• Asian Americans (PBS documentary series)

• Importance of Treaties With American Indian Tribes (PBS, 12-minute video)

• The Indigenous History of the Bay Area (Peninsula Open Space Trust webinar series)

• Indigenous Leadership: Ensuring a Future for Native Peoples, Cultures, and Lands (Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Program webinar series)

• Kamaksrił̣iq Nunam Irrusianik (Respect the Land): Iñupiaq Values and Subsistence Management in Western Arctic National Parklands (Coastal Fisheries Ecology Lab, 13-minute video)

• Why Treaties Matter (NPR, five-minute video)

Websites

• Dr. Robert D. Bullard: Father of Environmental Justice

• People for Community Recovery

• Women Cross DMZ — Mobilizing Women for Peace in Korea

Speeches

• 2002, September 18 - "Come September" by Arundhati Roy

Other Resource Lists

• Anti-racism Resources (curated by the Diversity Forum at the University of Washington School of Marine and Environmental Affairs)

• Thirteen Books That Will Make You Rethink California’s Indigenous History (curated by the Peninsula Open Space Trust)

Peer-reviewed Papers

• Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending damage: A letter to communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79(3), 409-428. doi: 17763/haer.79.3.n0016675661t3n15

• Woelfle-Erskine, C. A. (2017). The watershed body: Transgressing frontiers in riverine sciences, planning stochastic multispecies worlds. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 3(2). Special issue: Science out of feminist theory part 2: Remaking science(s). doi: 10.28968/cftt.v3i2.28840

Books

• Estes, N. (2019). Our history is the future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books.

• Gilio-Whitaker, D. (2019). As long as grass grows: The Indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

• Gilmore, R. W. (2007). Golden gulag: Prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

• Harjo, J., Howe, L., Foerster, J. E., & Westerman, G. (2020). When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through: A Norton anthology of Native Nations poetry. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.

• hooks, bell. (1981). Ain’t I a woman: Black women and feminism. Boston, MA: South End Press.

• Johnson, A. E., and Wilkinson, K. K. (Eds.). (2020). All we can save: Truth, courage, and solutions for the Climate Crisis. All We Can Save Project.

• Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.

• McKittrick, K. (2021). Dear science and other stories. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

• Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). The white possessive: Property, power, and Indigenous sovereignty. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

• Red Nation, The (2021). The Red Deal: Indigenous action to save our Earth. Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions.