Advancing Racial Equity in Outdoor Institutions

Why, and how have People of Color been excluded from full participation in nature spaces and outdoor sports? The AMC DEI Speaker Series is pleased to welcome Mardi Fuller, a backcountry adventurer and the first known Black person to hike all 48 of New Hampshire's high peaks in winter, to present a brief, but deep dive into understanding white supremacy. How does it normalize experiences, history, narratives and environmental ideology while keeping those operating out of its framework (and that can be people of any race) from seeing beyond it? In this presentation, Mardi speaks on her life of adventures as a Black outdoorswoman who has grown in her liberation-focused identity. We discuss barriers marginalized people face in accessing the outdoors and how their exclusion is detrimental to all people. We end by discussing solutions and how each of us can play a role in increasing equitable access to nature and outdoor activities. This recording is no longer available.

Resources

• Black Faces, White Spaces
  In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans.
• Decentering Whiteness
  In 1997, our co-founders launched a series of Whiteness Papers with "Decentering Whiteness." This inaugural paper called for nothing less than a transformation of the foundational structure of our country. We reissue it here, complete with updates, as an offering to the growing racial justice community and in celebration of our 20 years of commitment to the creation of a society which revolves around a multiracial center, and thereby fulfills the promise of freedom and justice for all.
• Let's Talk About Race
  Racial identity development in minority and majority ethnic groups.
• The White Card
  The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation to respond.
• Facing History & Ourselves Resource Library
  Find compelling classroom resources, learn new teaching methods, meet standards, and make a difference in the lives of your students.
• You Can Thank Black Horticulturist Booker T. Whatley for Your CSA
  Long written out of the narrative, the Tuskegee University professor first introduced the concept in the 1960s as a solution for struggling Black farmers.
• American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
  This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.