SLS Resource List: COVID-19 Pandemic and Racial Justice

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 almost daily.

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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 either one of our SLS Service Learning and Partnerships Specialists - Rebecca Watts Hull or Ruthie Yow - to set up a time to talk.

Resources:

SLS resources related to the current moment: the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice

• CTL/SLS Teaching Resources

• SLS Reflections 

• 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:

• Resources recommended by GT on having conversations about race:

  • Can we talk about race - and racism? Yes.

  • Conversation Roadblocks and How to Surmount Them

  • 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

• 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