Anti-Racism Resources for STEM Education Centers

At NSEC 2020, we asked participants to share resources related to ending racism. This is a non-comprehensive crowd-sourced collection.

Crowd-sourced Mega Lists

• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources - This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. These resources have been ordered in an attempt to make them more accessible. We will continue to add resources - .
• Antiracism Resources - This document has a where to start section; what to say to family; videos and podcasts recommendations and more. bit.ly/resourcesantiracist
• Just released, ASCN has a collection of resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion: https://ascnhighered.org/ASCN/posts/dei_resources.html
• Many Black Faculty are using this hashtag to share their experiences in the academy: #blackintheivory

ARTICLEs

• I Don't Need 'Love' Texts From My White Friends: I need them to fight anti-blackness by Chad Sanders https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/whites-anti-blackness-protests.html (REQUIRES SUBSCRIPTION)
• "How to Support the Struggle Against Police Brutality", Claire Lampen in New York Magazine: https://www.thecut.com/article/george-floyd-protests-how-to-help-where-to-donate.html
• "We're not 'all in this together,' and we never were", Leonard Pitts in Portland Press Herald: https://www.pressherald.com/2020/05/06/leonard-pitts-were-not-all-in-this-together-and-we-never-were/
• "Check your Privilege Campaign" University of San Francisco, Dr. Ja'Nina Garrett-Walker: https://myusf.usfca.edu/student-life/intercultural-center/check-your-privilege
• 400 years and (re)counting | Science by Shirley Malcolm -https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6459/1221.full

BOOKs

• How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram Kendi
• White Fragility, by Robin Diangelo
• Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad
• Racial Formation in the United States, by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, by Eduardo Bonila-Silva
• The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein
• They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up, by Eternity Martis
• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, by Austin Channing Brown
• Here is a list of anti-racism books geared towards children, curated by New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/strategist/article/anti-racist-childrens-books.html

VIDEOs

• September 27, 1966: Martin Luther King, Jr.—A riot is the language of the unheard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0BWXjJv5s
• A conversation with President Obama: Reimagining Policing in the Wake of Continued Police Violence on June 3, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qB6SsErpA
• George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show on May 29, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4amCfVbA_c
• Before You Call the Cops – The Tyler Merritt Project - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKeITMzMn7w&feature=youtu.be
• Unequal Opportunity Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_Vzl-r8NY (4 minutes)
• Talk about how racism has evolved through American history: https://youtu.be/nBFYQu1ZYD0 (15.5 minutes)
• Why Cities are Still So Segregated: https://youtu.be/O5FBJyqfoLM (6.5 minutes)
• Black parents having "The Talk" with their young sons: https://youtu.be/1f7lvVIK2f0 (25 minutes)
• CNN Town Hall with the characters from Sesame Street:
• Franklin Institute Videos
  • Race and Space Part 1 addresses why there are so few black astronomers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FuMnvAgVzc
  • Race and Space Part 2 looks at how identity contributes to people's work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBT2HXKcNiI
  • Race and Space Part 3 is on how black astronomers survive in their careers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYciz4sDoQ

IMAGEs

• Overt Vs. Covert White Supremacy -https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/599896882700001700d4fd45.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale
• Illustrating Equity vs. Equality https://interactioninstitute.org/illustrating-equality-vs-equity/

Statements and Resources from Scholarly Societies on #ShutdownSTEM on June 10, 2020.

• The Association of Black Anthropologists has issued a "Statement Against Police Violence and Anti-Black Racism" which includes some very clear calls for the kinds of changes that can be made inside the structures of departments and institutions.
• ParticlesforJustice,a community of Black physicists, have a statement on supporting #Strike4BlackLives, #ShutdownSTEM, and #Shutdownacademia on June 10. They also have a list of recommended resources that includes self-care resources for black people, books, online articles, kid-friendly resources, and more.
• Blog post at the American Mathematical Society (AMS) on #ShutdownSTEM: https://blogs.ams.org/inclusionexclusion/2020/06/06/shutdownmath/
• https://500womenscientists.org/updates/2020/6/8/take-action
• https://www.shutdownstem.com/resources
• AAAS and Science will be observing the day.
• American Physical Society will be closed on June 10.
• Physical Review Letters scientific journal will not publish or tweet any papers.
• March for Science will join.