SLS' Anti-Racism Resource List for Teaching, Learning, and Acting to "Create Sustainable Communities" During this Time of Transformation

Our world is in the midst of incredible change - change that Georgia Tech faculty, staff, students, and partners want to teach about, learn about, and engage in, both inside and outside the classroom. SLS has started this list to compile and share the best resources coming our way. We will update it on a regular basis, as we discover new resources.

Please help us strengthen and grow this list! Fill out this form with a comment or suggestion.

Eventually, we will turn some of these resources into teaching tools. If you are interested in using some of these resources now to teach, we are happy to help you come up with a plan. Contact our SLS Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist Ruthie Yow to set up a time to talk.

Engage with GT BIPOC Groups, Offices, and Resources

Many links and resources can be found at:

• Student Diversity Programs 

• OMED: Educational Services

• Cultural Registered Student Organizations

Combating Racism and Advancing Racial Justice on College Campuses

• CTL/SLS Teaching Resources for  incorporating current events into teaching

• Today is Juneteenth: Webinar with SLS

• Sustaining the Conversation: A Review of Georgia Tech's Work Towards Racial Justice Through the Lens of 3 SDGs: Blog Post and Webinar

• Be an Ally: How to Help Fight Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia - from Boston University - the resources are specific to BU, but the general suggestions are helpful and we have similar resources here at GT

• “Race on Campus” newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education

• Op-Ed: Working in Solidarity to Address Anti-Asian Violence and Xenophobia – from Insight Into Diversity - about the importance of forming multi-racial alliances to combat hate

Support SLS' Partners

One of the best ways we can advance racial justice is by supporting community organizations led by and BIPOC partners and working to advance equity and sustainability in BIPOC communities and across the Atlanta region. We encourage you to support these SLS Partners. See more suggestions for supporting the AAPI community HERE.

Additional Resources

SLS resources: 

• Related reflections from the SLS Blog 

• List of SLS’s Black-led and equity-focused partner organizations

• CCI Conversations with Community Liaisons

• Centering Racial Equity in Equitable and Sustainable Development

Resources on racial justice from or recommended by GT:

• Anti-Racism Resources from Institute Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Pushing Back Against Racism and Xenophobia on Campuses: MarYam Hamedani, Hazel Rose Markus, and Paula Moya highlight five ways college educators can have more effective conversations about race.

• Transformative Narratives - a curated collection of visual, oral, and written personal stories by faculty, staff, and students at GT

• SGA Resources

• GT Library resources on “Understanding Black Lives Matter and The Black Experience in the United States” 

• Race at Georgia Tech: A Call to Action

• Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab

Anti-racism readings, films, and podcasts:

• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture 

• From White Racist to White Anti-Racist

• How to not be a “Karen”: Managing the tensions of antiracist allyship

• Anti-racism for white people and parents (NPR, 37-min podcast)

• Talking to Family

• 1619 Project 

• The Case for Reparations

• Examples and toolkit of Indigenous Land Reparations

• 21-Day Racial Equity Syllabus

Other resources on class and race:

• How race was socially constructed: How American oligarchs created the concept of race to divide and conquer the poor

• Govt & institutional role in wealth accumulation: 

  • 6-min video: Housing Segregation In Everything 

  • Boosts and blocks of building wealth (Fair Economy; timeline)

• Quantifying the race-wealth divide: Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America (Urban Institute)

• Breakdown of class characteristics

Resources on racial justice and sustainability:

• Various resources on Racial Justice and the Sustainable Built Environment

  • VIP: Building for Equity and Sustainability Resources

  • SLS Resources - Racism and the Built Environment

  • Preparing for the Post-COVID-19 Land Grab

  • Towards an Emergency Housing Response to COVID-19 in Georgia

  • Why the Virus is a Civil Rights Issues: 'The Pain will not be Shared Equally'

• Various resources on COVID-19, Equity, Community, and Sustainability

• The Environmental Justice Movement in the U.S. (videos and readings): 

  • The Warren County, North Carolina story

  • The Struggle for Environmental Justice: Peggy Shepard, TedX Harlem

  • Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina

• From the NAACP’s Centering Equity in the Sustainable Building Sector Initiative:

  • A directory of Anti-Oppression, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Professionals (POC and Allies

  • Meet 13 BIPOC Women on the frontlines of transformational change

  • Design Justice for Black Lives

  • Women of Color Collective in Sustainability:

  • Green 2.0 for transparency and transformation of environmental organizations

  • Diverse Environmental Leaders Speakers Bureau

  • 'Overwhelmingly white' green groups forced to confront past

  • Pollution Is Racial Violence

  • An Open Letter to the Union of Concerned Scientists: On Black Death, Black Silencing, and Black Fugitivity