Racism, Colonialism & Climate Change
Buchanan Street is a street in Glasgow City Centre, or ‘Merchant City’. It is named after a famous merchant, Andrew Buchanan, who made his fortune from tobacco plantations in Virginia, worked on by slaves. Glasgow was known as the ‘Second City of the Empire’ for its shipbuilding, industry and port.
Reading (Fiction and Non-fiction)
Race & Empire
Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye
Franz Fanon - Back Skin, White Masks
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah & We Should All be Feminists
Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
Michelle Obama- Becoming
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
Edward Said - Culture & Imperialism
Shashi Tharoor - Inglorious Empire
Patricia Hill Collins- Black Feminist Thought (Read online)
Audre Lorde - Sister Outsider
Ian Haney López - Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Carol Anderson - White Rage
Rosario Morales - This Bridge Called My Back
Ijeoma Oluo - So You Want to Talk About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Akala - Natives
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Bryan Stevenson - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Angela Saini - Superior: The Return of Race Science
Class & Inequality
Owen Jones - Chavs
Owen Jones - The Establishment and how they get away with it
Darren McGarvey - Poverty Safari
Deborah Orr - Motherwell: A Girlhood
Kate Pickett & Richard G. Wilkinson - The Spirit Level
Indigenous Sovereignty & Neo-Colonialism
Bruce Braun - The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada's West Coast
Zoe Todd - An Indigenous Feminist’s Take On The Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word For Colonialism
Boaventura de Sousa Santos - Another Knowledge is Possible Beyond Northern Epistemologies
Kent G. Lightfoot a, Lee M. Panich b, Tsim D. Schneider c, Sara L. Gonzalez d- European colonialism and the Anthropocene: A view from the Pacific Coast of North America
Glen Coulthard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Grounded Normativity / Place-Based Solidarity
Glen Coulthard - Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs
Urban Geography
Daniel Tevera - Urban Studies and Labour Migration
Kemi Adeyemi - The Practice of Slowness: Black Queer Women and the Right to the City by Kemi Adeyemi
Harold Rose & Paula McClain - Race, Place and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America (Read here)
Zenzele Isoke - Urban Ethnographer
Rachel Goffe - Urban Geographer
Adam Bledsoe and Willie Jamaal Wright - Urban Geography: Understanding Black Cities and the Black Experience in Cities (Read here)
Benjamin J. Pauli - Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis
John Eligon - A Question of Environmental Racism in Flint (Read here)
Articles
Faria & Mollett - ‘Critical feminist reflexivity and the politics of whiteness in the ‘field’ (Read here)
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson - ‘I’m a black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet.’ (Read here)
Reni Eddo-Lodge - ‘Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race’ (Read here)
Diyora Shadijanova - ‘How to make sure your allyship isn’t performative’ (Read here)
Karen Bell - ‘A working class green movement is out there but not getting the credit it deserves’ (Read here)
Watching
14 Days in May - Youtube
13th - Netflix
Social Media
Sassy_latte
georgethepoet
Akala Tamika D. Mallory
Check your privilege
AzzeesforMP
Greens of Colour Dr. Aynan Elizabeth Johnson
Decolonize this place
She_coloursnature
The.mirror
The conscious kid
Jujumil
Indigenous women hike
Theslumflower
No white saviours
Mona Chalabi
Colour the trails
Mikaelaloach
Browngirl_outdoorworld