A detailed reading list for today’s topic.
If you're working as a professional geoscientist, this petition not only would be worth your time to sign, but there are also a variety of recommendations in the text for things that our whole field can do to grapple with the legacies we have been featuring today.
This article on John Wesley Powell, who famously explored the Grand Canyon area and after whom Lake Powell is named, explores his so-called anthropological studies of the Native populations and his belief that those populations needed to be "Civilized". An illustration of the choices we are making when we tell certain parts of a story to glorify an individual, while leaving other parts to a legacy that isn't discussed.
We are a group of Geoscience graduate students, faculty, and researchers spanning multiple institutions who are passionate about improving equity and access in our field. We read all the time for science, so why not read to educate ourselves about equity? So often we predominantly ask the under represented groups in our communities to do the work of educating us, yet we educate ourselves and each other all the time in a range of topics related to our disciplines.
This page is intended to reduce redundancy by compiling resources we often share, and be a repository of material including: 1) the background of inequity in STEM higher ed, 2) particular Geoscience/Earth Science equity issues, and 3) strategies and resources for facilitating hard conversations. At this time, we hope you will add to the libraries and use these ideas to start conversations within your communities.
Not only is this a good read, I'm told that's a really well done logo. https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2020/06/10/black-in-geosciences/
Meet Louis Purnell, a WWII Aviator who went on to catalog samples for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, but who was then forced out of that museum after his colleagues would not allow him to publish samples that he had recorded and identified. He went on to a successful career working at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, doing the sort of work he was forced out of doing in the geosciences.