Looking for diverse voices in the outdoors? Check out these resources:
Podcast episodes:
NPR’s Code Switch: Made For You And Me
Outside Voices Podcast: Finding Black joy in the outdoors with Brittany Leavitt
Outside Podcast: Running While Black in New York
Books:
The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors (2014), James Edward Mills
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock (2019), Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Black Faces, White Spaces (2014), Carolyn Finney
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009), Edited by Camille T. Dungy
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013), Robin Wall Kimmerer
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (2019), edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra and Sarah Jaquette Ray
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land (2020), Noé Álvarez
To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History (2005), Dianne D. Glave, Mark Stoll
The Unlikely Thru-Hiker (2019), Derick Lugo
Articles:
9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher, J. Drew Lanham. Orion Magazine
Climate Justice is Racial Justice: A Reading List (2020)
Environmentalism’s Racist History (2015), Jedediah Purdy. The New Yorker
Read Up on the Links Between Racism and the Environment (2020), Somini Sengupta