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To both get kids outdoors into nature and to address racial inequality, it is important to understand that access to the natural environment is not evenly distributed. For my own learning I'm adding all links I find on this subject to this thread. Recommendations welcome!
Improving children's access to nature starts with addressing inequality. Barriers to outside play particularly affect children from low income and BAME households. Can education help? (Guardian 2018) https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2018/mar/01/improving-childrens-access-nature-addressing-inequality-bame-low-income-backgrounds
Make outdoors great again: The charities empowering us all to go wild. (Big Issue 2019) @hannahjtw https://www.bigissue.com/latest/make-outdoors-great-again-the-charities-empowering-us-all-to-go-wild/
The Lack of Diversity in Children's Books About Nature. A lot of beloved storybook characters scavenge food in the wild, go on bear hunts, and otherwise explore the natural world, and almost all of them are white. @AshleyFetters @TheAtlantic 2019 https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/the-lack-of-diversity-in-childrens-books-about-nature/590152/
C&NN’s Conference Focuses on Connecting Children of Color to Nature @ChildrenNature 2016
Hiking While Black (HT @OutdoorAfro) https://www.wfyi.org/programs/all-in/radio/Hiking-While-Black
Get Out: Nurturing A Bond Between Black People And Nature https://the1a.org/segments/2017-12-18-get-out-nurturing-a-bond-between-black-people-and-nature/ @1a @1blackbirder
Representation Matters: Addressing the Lack of Black Children in Books About Nature @TheNAAEE
The joys and challenges of exploring nature while black https://grist.org/fix/the-joys-and-challenges-of-exploring-nature-while-black/ via @grist @MythiliSk
Black Communities Are Reclaiming Space Outdoors, From Backyard Gardening to Mountain Climbing - Yes! Magazine https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/05/09/outdoor-reacreation-black-community/ @carlabell_me @yesmagazine
A fifth of deprived children never spend time in nature, study finds. Just 57 per cent of BAME children play outside at least once a week, compared with 73 per cent of white children. https://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/article/a-fifth-of-deprived-children-never-spend-time-in-nature-study-finds @cypnow
Sport England warns that BAME people are being ‘excluded and let down’ https://www.afpe.org.uk/physical-education/sport-england-warns-that-bame-people-are-being-excluded-and-let-down/ @Sport_England
Research suggests financially disadvantaged and BAME children are most likely to bear the brunt, with children in these categories significantly less likely to enjoy the natural environment. @ChildrensComm
Why parks matter to racial justice https://sharedassets.org.uk/uncategorized/why-parks-matter-to-racial-justice/ @markcwalton
Natural solutions for tackling
health inequalities @ucl Institute Health Equity http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/natural-solutions-to-tackling-health-inequalities/natural-solutions-to-tackling-health-inequalities.pdf @jennyjroe
health inequalities @ucl Institute Health Equity http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/natural-solutions-to-tackling-health-inequalities/natural-solutions-to-tackling-health-inequalities.pdf @jennyjroe
Anti-racist food movement
"We don’t need your help, we need allies and accomplices who recognise that systemic racism is tied to climate change, misogyny and the other oppressive structures that perpetuate violence and destruction." #BLM https://orfc.org.uk/building-an-anti-racist-food-movement-reflections-from-land-in-our-names/ @ORFC @Jo_zinaC
"We don’t need your help, we need allies and accomplices who recognise that systemic racism is tied to climate change, misogyny and the other oppressive structures that perpetuate violence and destruction." #BLM https://orfc.org.uk/building-an-anti-racist-food-movement-reflections-from-land-in-our-names/ @ORFC @Jo_zinaC
Cities in the Time of COVID-19: How do we respond to anti-Black racism in urbanist practices and conversations? 5 Key Takeaways https://canurb.org/citytalk-news/how-do-we-respond-to-anti-black-racism-in-urbanist-practices-and-conversations/ via @mitchell_silver #BlackLivesMattters #urbangreenspace
Representation Matters: Addressing the Lack of Black Children in Books About Nature
@TheNAAEE https://naaee.org/eepro/blog/representation-matters-addressing-lack
@TheNAAEE https://naaee.org/eepro/blog/representation-matters-addressing-lack
C&NN’s Conference Focuses on Connecting Children of Color to Nature @ChildrenNature 2016 https://www.childrenandnature.org/2016/06/24/cnn-conference-focuses-on-connecting-black-children-to-nature/
"...both historically and today, in "real life" as well as in the dominant (i.e., white) cultural imagination, Black people are restricted to very particular outdoor scenes and spaces"
Where are the books about Black Kids in Nature? - Diverse Book Finder https://diversebookfinder.org/browse/where-are-the-books-about-black-kids-in-nature/?fbclid=IwAR307CZWVXZ08TKoD2iBAmXL7zjiieXp9IogRpniNOqHW1GMDV8Al-uZYJ8
Where are the books about Black Kids in Nature? - Diverse Book Finder https://diversebookfinder.org/browse/where-are-the-books-about-black-kids-in-nature/?fbclid=IwAR307CZWVXZ08TKoD2iBAmXL7zjiieXp9IogRpniNOqHW1GMDV8Al-uZYJ8
