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📚ANTI-RACIST & MOBILITY JUSTICE RESOURCE LIST

Thanks for attending our #mobilityjustice power hour! Here are the resources we read/watched/listened to together. Let's continue learning & sharing resources to this thread. ⬇️ #BlackLivesMatter

"If you want to ban cars, start by banning racism." Piece by @DrDesThePlanner: citylab.com/perspective/20…

Confronting Power and Privilege by @TamikaButler.

"So what should transportation professionals do to change? I’ve said this a million times: start by listening to women of color." medium.com/@connectwithta…

Principles of mobility justice by @untokening. untokening.org/updates/2017/1…

.@awalkerinLA's piece about urbanists glossing over systemic racism in COVID response decisions.

"Opening a handful of streets for one type of user doesn’t mean that those streets are open for everyone." curbed.com/2020/5/20/2126…

.@goldmanschool podcast about our transit system's racist past and how to move towards an anti-racist future.
gspp.berkeley.edu/news/podcast/e…

Video: Nicole Payne from @NACTO: Keynote at @WAbikes - Designing for a more equitable city.

Planning While Black: A Powerful Call for Racial Equity. @TamikaButler's keynote at @NACTO

Listen. Back of the Bus: Mass transit, race and inequality. @wnyc

Covered highways cutting through and destroying Black neighborhoods, including Rondo in Minneapolis.
project.wnyc.org/backofthebus/

Transit is a civil rights issue. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

.@courtneycyclez on how systemic racism make streets unsafe for Black communities, carve highways through Black communities, and create overpolicing in Black and Brown neighborhoods.
chi.streetsblog.org/2020/05/11/ahm…

Untokening Mobility: Beyond Pavement, Paint and Place
@untokening.

"For us, “street safety” begins with asking what makes us unsafe in streets."

untokening.org/updates/2018/1…

Stop Killing Us: A Real Life Nightmare, @TamikaButler

Ask yourself every day:
What am I doing every single day to stop the killing of black people?
blog.usejournal.com/stop-killing-u…

At the Intersections: Melanated musings on transportation and mobility by and for women of color. @bambinoir @dubonthestreets @BrownBrytanee @margo_dawes @mobilitytings
medium.com/at-the-interse…

Attention Transportation Advocates: Race Is A Part Of The Work. @NJDC07 thewiyatt.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/att…

Bridging the Divide: Connecting People to Opportunity
@USDOT

.@onbeing with Rev. Lucas Johnson: “The COVID pandemic and the racism pandemic, actually, they function in similar ways...You can’t be healthy while everyone else around you is sick and think that you will escape with your health.”
onbeing.org/programs/livin…

.@SPUR_Urbanist: Letter to white urbanists spur.org/news/2020-06-0…

City Transport Officials Condemn Police Violence and Affirm Black Lives Matter. @StreetsblogUSA
usa.streetsblog.org/2020/06/02/cit…

.@TransitCenter: Tailoring Transit Service for Essential Workers Is a Matter of Racial Justice.

"In American cities, people of color account for a disproportionate share of the 2.8 million essential workers who usually commute on transit"

transitcenter.org/tailoring-tran…

Oakland’s @WarrenMobility on pursuing racial equity within a mobility framework. chi.streetsblog.org/2020/05/28/oak…

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

theconversation.com/poor-and-black…

"It was this highway that, in the 1950s and ‘60s, tore apart the once-thriving neighborhood of Rondo — the heart of St. Paul’s largest African-American community — and helped spur decades of racial segregation in the region."
@linpoonsays citylab.com/transportation…

.@Brentinmock: "For black men like Christian Cooper, the threat of a call to police casts a cloud of fear over parks and public spaces that others associate with safety."

citylab.com/equity/2020/05…

"When Black people in the CD had to fight for a crosstown bus. The story behind the #48 Bus.
While these days you can take busses across town. It was not always like that for a redlined Central District." @AfricatownSEA africatownmedia.com/post/tbt-when-…

A CALL TO WHITE PEOPLE: IT’S TIME TO LIVE IN THE ANSWER @SoSeaEmerald:
southseattleemerald.com/2020/06/02/a-c…

"Architects and planners have an obligation to protect health, safety and welfare through the spaces we design. As the George Floyd protests reveal, we’ve failed." @BCLEEJR citylab.com/perspective/20…

After a wave violence against Black men in the United States, it is the duty of the planning profession to consider its role in perpetuating institutional racism. @planetizen
planetizen.com/node/109465

Movie: Whose streets?
nwfilmforum.org/films/whose-st…

.@RaceForward - What is systemic racism?
raceforward.org/videos/systemi…

Fighting for transportation justice.

Video: How do we respond to anti-Black racism in urbanist practices and conversations? @CANURB
@TamikaButler, @Jay_Pitter, @orlandopbailey, Anthonia Ogundele, @WillProsper
canurb.org/new-blog-1/202…

.@TransitCenter Report: Inclusive Transit: Advancing Equity Through Improved Access & Opportunity
transitcenter.org/publication/in…

.@ThrivanceGroup @DrDesThePlanner's Un-Urbanist Assembly: Virtual teach-in confronting the legacy of anti-Blackness in the built environment. thrivancegroup.com/unurbanist

Walking while Black: Pedestrian enforcement and racial profiling. propublica.org/series/walking…

The racism of technology - and why driverless cars could be the most dangerous example yet. @alexhern theguardian.com/technology/sho…

PoC Leaders Demand Anti-Racism from Transportation Community usa.streetsblog.org/2020/06/03/poc…

The Racist Legacy of America’s Inner-City Highways dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…

How Public Transportation In The U.S. Discriminates Against Minorities fastcompany.com/3037983/free-t…

WEB SPECIAL: The Anatomy of Transportation Racism reimaginerpe.org/highwayrobbery

Thoughts on racism, public space, and transportation activism @Jonathan_Maus @BikePortland bikeportland.org/2020/05/28/tho…

Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Bikes. @TamikaButler bicycling.com/culture/a32783…

America’s Unfair Rules of the Road. How our transportation system discriminates against the most vulnerable. slate.com/news-and-polit…

There is Structural Racism in Transport: Report. @SmartGrowthUSA lays out a strategy for healthier, more equitable communities. usa.streetsblog.org/2019/12/18/the…

.@SmartGrowthUSA - The State of Transportation and Health Equity. smartgrowthamerica.org/app/uploads/20…

BOOK: Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity by @DrBobBullard books.google.com/books/about/Hi…

Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility by @DrBobBullard books.google.com/books/about/Ju…

The Color of Law - A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein epi.org/publication/th…

What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

You can find a google form list of our #MobilityJustice resources here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…