Amanda McMillan Lequieu

Teaching

Below is a list of my favorite resources for teaching, both ones that I’ve developed and sources created by other scholars.

Amanda’s continually-updated resource pages

On the globalization of the agrofood system (updated 2019)
On climate change (updated 2020)

Race, health, and environment

Brian Hamilton’s excellent Environmental History and Race syllabi
On how environmental racism shaped the US (Robert Bullard on PBS)
Brandi Summers’ recent op-ed in The NY Times
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s recent op-ed in The NY Times
Covid 19 & Agriculture/Food/Farm Workers
Covid 19 & Climate Change–Episode 3 of the HEATED podcast, “COVID-19 and climate justice”
General resources for white people to deepen anti-racism work: bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

Articles and books
- Lindsey Dillon and Julie Sze’s 2016 article: “Police Power and Particulate Matters: Environmental Justice and the Spatialities of In/Securities in U.S. Cities.” English Language Notes 52(4): 13-23.
- Carolyn Finney’s 2014 book: Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. University of North Carolina Press.
- David Pellow’s 2018 book: What is Critical Environmental Justice? (Polity Press) and his 2016 article, “Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Studies: Black Lives Matter as an Environmental Justice Challenge.” Du Bois Review.
- Myles Lennon, 2017, Decolonizing energy: Black Lives Matter and technoscientific expertise amid solar transitions, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 30, Pages 18-27.
- Rashad Shabazz, 2015, Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
- Malini Ranganathan and Eve Bratman 2019 “From Urban Resilience to Abolitionist Climate Justice in Washington, DC” Antipode.

Environmental sociology

Black Ecologies from African American Intellectual History Society
The Rachel Carson Center
Edge Effects
Radical Hope syllabus
On the history of Earth Day and the future of Earth (PNAS 2020)
On environmental issues in the American South: the Southern Exposure short (10 minute) film series (from the Alabama Rivers Alliance and the Southern Environmental Law Center)
On the intersection of feminism and environmental conversation –an article on white-tailed deer
On “Landscapes of the Mind” (The Economist)
On mapping Native lands in North America
On “Naming the Problem(s): Contextualizing “Just Environmental” Research” (Social Science Research Council)
On the complexities of ‘natural’: a comic-strip reflection on Midwestern prairie restorations

Course design, handouts, and grading

Amanda’s Case Studies in the Environment course-long assignment and presentation feedback form, as discussed in this blog post
On assessing and revising one’s syllabus for racial diversity and inclusion
On giving students more options in assignments to increase their buy-in to class
On using rubrics for writing and presentations (Rebecca Schuman)
On designing lectures, presentations, and other forms of communication for low vision, low hearing, and differing abilities information processing
On talking in class – John Foran
On watching a film – John Foran

Teaching methods, research, and writing

On coding ethnographic data through flexible coding (Scatterplot blog)
On Learning to Do Historical Research (from William Cronon)
On How to write for class and How to read for class.
On normativity in science: “Rather than being free of values, good science is transparent about them.” (The Conversation blog)
On data visualization, https://www.visualcapitalist.com/

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