Here is a carefully selected list of materials used for each slide in StoryMap. A recommended reading list is also available for those who wish to delve deeper into the workshop and StoryMap topics.

Jobos Bay 

• Field, Ralph, et al. “Jobos Bay Estuarine Profile: A National Estuarine Research Reserve.” NOAA Office for Coastal Management, 2028. https://coast.noaa.gov/data/docs/nerrs/Reserves_JOB_SiteProfile.pdf
• Laboy, Eddie Nelson. Environmental Management, Sustainable Development and Human Health. CRC Press, 2009.

Colonialism

• Ahuja, Neel. Planetary Specters : Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century. The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
• Kohn, Margaret, and Kavita Reddy. “Colonialism.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 17 Jan. 2023, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/?page=44&.

Puerto Rico’s Historical Timeline

• DeJesus, Jessica van Dop. “Puerto Rico Pictures and Facts.” Geography, National Geographic Kids, 25 Feb. 2022, https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/states/article/puerto-rico. 
• Picó, Fernando. History of Puerto Rico : A Panorama of Its People. Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006. 

The colonization of Indigenous Societies 

• Cartwright, Mark. “Encomienda.” World History Encyclopedia, 17 Apr. 2023,  https://www.worldhistory.org/Encomienda/.
• Picó, Fernando. History of Puerto Rico : A Panorama of Its People. Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006.
• Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, et al. “Slavery of Indigenous People in the Caribbean: An Archaeological Perspective.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 24, no. 3, Sept. 2020, pp. 517–45.

Sugar Mills and Enslavement 

• Picó, Fernando. History of Puerto Rico : A Panorama of Its People. Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006.
• Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, et al. “Slavery of Indigenous People in the Caribbean: An Archaeological Perspective.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 24, no. 3, Sept. 2020, pp. 517–45.

The Becoming of Black Zones 

• Lloréns, Hilda, and Carlos G. García-Quijano. “From Extractive Agriculture to Industrial Waste Periphery: Life in a Black-Puerto Rican Ecology.” AAIHS, Black Perspectives , 21 June 2020, https://www.aaihs.org/from-extractive-agriculture-to-industrial-waste-periphery-life-in-a-black-puerto-rican-ecology/
• Lloréns, Hilda. “Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone: In Jobos Bay, Afro-Puerto Rican Communities Living in the Shadow of Two Polluting Power Plants Fight for the Right to a Safe Environment.” NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 275–80. 

Mid-20th century Industrialization

• Lloréns, Hilda, and Carlos G. García-Quijano. “From Extractive Agriculture to Industrial Waste Periphery: Life in a Black-Puerto Rican Ecology.” AAIHS, Black Perspectives , 21 June 2020, https://www.aaihs.org/from-extractive-agriculture-to-industrial-waste-periphery-life-in-a-black-puerto-rican-ecology/

The industrialization of Southeast Puerto Rico

• Lloréns, Hilda, and Carlos G. García-Quijano. “From Extractive Agriculture to Industrial Waste Periphery: Life in a Black-Puerto Rican Ecology.” AAIHS, Black Perspectives , 21 June 2020, https://www.aaihs.org/from-extractive-agriculture-to-industrial-waste-periphery-life-in-a-black-puerto-rican-ecology/
• Lloréns, Hilda. “Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone: In Jobos Bay, Afro-Puerto Rican Communities Living in the Shadow of Two Polluting Power Plants Fight for the Right to a Safe Environment.” NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 275–80.

Environmental Repercussions 

• Blakemore, Erin. “Why Puerto Rico Has Debated U.S. Statehood since Its Colonization.” History, National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2022, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/puerto-rico-debated-statehood-since-colonization#:~:text=Why%3F,sprang%20up%20on%20the%20island.

Jobos Bay — Environmental Injustice Magnet

• Quan, Jenna. “Climate Justice Seminar Recap: Dr. Hilda Lloréns.” Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute, 20 July 2021, https://marinescience.ucdavis.edu/blog/climate-justice-seminar-recap-dr-hilda-llorens.
• “UC Davis CMSI Climate Justice Seminar Series with Dr. Hilda Lloréns.” YouTube, UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory & UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 4 May 2021, https://youtu.be/aDLug4klqGA.

Aguirre Power Complex

• Carmen. “Aguirre Combined Cycle Power Plant, Puerto Rico.” Power Technology, 5 Jan. 2022,  https://www.power-technology.com/marketdata/aguirre-combined-cycle-power-plant-puerto-rico/. 
• “Puerto Rico Territory Profile and Energy Estimates .” EIA, U.S. Energy Information Administration Independent Statistics and Analysis, 2023,  https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=RQ.
• “UC Davis CMSI Climate Justice Seminar Series with Dr. Hilda Lloréns.” YouTube, UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory & UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 4 May 2021, https://youtu.be/aDLug4klqGA.

AES Coal Power Plant

• Santillana, Christine. “AES Puerto Rico: 20 Years of Coal Ash Contamination.” Earthjustice, 4 Oct. 2022, https://earthjustice.org/experts/christine-santillana/aes-puerto-rico-20-years-of-coal-ash-contamination
• “UC Davis CMSI Climate Justice Seminar Series with Dr. Hilda Lloréns.” YouTube, UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory & UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 4 May 2021, https://youtu.be/aDLug4klqGA.

Colombia: The Cerrejón Coal Mine

• Betancur, Ana Cecilia, and William Villa. “Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia.” IWGIA: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2016, https://www.iwgia.org/en/resources/publications/3172-mining-and-indigenous-peoples-in
• Portela, Laura Pérez. “Colombian State Failing the Wayúu Children of La Guajira.” IWGIA: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 16 Sept. 2021, https://www.iwgia.org/en/colombia/4527-colombian-state-failing-the-way%C3%BAu-chi
• Rosso, Nicoló Rosso Filippo. “In Colombia’s La Guajira, the Native Wayuu Are Forgotten in the Dust.” Mongabay Environmental News, 13 May 2020, https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/in-colombias-la-guajira-the-native-wayuu-are-forgotten-in-the-dust/.

Coloniality

• Rivera, Danielle Zoe. “Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 46, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 126–35.

Jobos Bay and Coloniality

• Lloréns, Hilda. “The Making of a Community Activist.” SAPIENS- Anthropology Magazines, 5 May 2017,https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qX8DbCHgyaRQI7zE0RAkD8pJtK4FH84Q9wD3nWL2Vk/edit#.
• Lloréns, Hilda. “Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone: In Jobos Bay, Afro-Puerto Rican Communities Living in the Shadow of Two Polluting Power Plants Fight for the Right to a Safe Environment.” NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 275–80.

Environmental Injustice and Coloniality

• Erickson, Bruce. “Anthropocene Futures: Linking Colonialism and Environmentalism in an Age of Crisis.” ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE, vol. 38, no. 1, Feb. 2020, pp. 111–28.
• Lloréns, Hilda. . “The Making of a Community Activist.” SAPIENS- Anthropology Magazines, 5 May 2017, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qX8DbCHgyaRQI7zE0RAkD8pJtK4FH84Q9wD3nWL2Vk/edit#.
• Rivera, Danielle Zoe. “Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 46, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 126–35.

Denial of Community Participation

• Lloréns, Hilda. “Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone: In Jobos Bay, Afro-Puerto Rican Communities Living in the Shadow of Two Polluting Power Plants Fight for the Right to  a Safe Environment.” NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 275–80. 
• Pulido, Laura. “Geographies of Race and Ethnicity 1: White Supremacy vs White Privilege in Environmental Racism Research.” PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, vol. 39, no. 6, Dec. 2015, pp. 809–17.
• Rivera, Danielle Zoe. “Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 46, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 126–35.

The Government 

• Lloréns, Hilda. “Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone: In Jobos Bay, Afro-Puerto Rican Communities Living in the Shadow of Two Polluting Power Plants Fight for the Right to  a Safe Environment.” NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp.  275–80. 
• Rivera, Danielle Zoe. “Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 46, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 126–35.

Borderization and Coloniality 

• Pulido, Laura. “Geographies of Race and Ethnicity 1: White Supremacy vs White Privilege in Environmental Racism Research.” PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, vol. 39, no.  6, Dec. 2015, pp. 809–17.
• “UC Davis CMSI Climate Justice Seminar Series with Dr. Hilda Lloréns.” YouTube, UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory & UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 4 May 2021, https://youtu.be/aDLug4klqGA. 

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Climate Apartheid

• Carrington, Damian. “’Climate Apartheid’: UN Expert Says Human Rights May Not Survive.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 25 June 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/25/climate-apartheid-united-nations-expert-says-human-rights-may-not-survive-crisis.

• Berger, Marilyn. “Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/world/africa/desmond-tutu-dead.html.
• Tuana, Nancy. “Climate Apartheid: The Forgetting of Race in the Anthropocene .” Scholarly Publishing Collective, 1 Jan. 2019, https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/cpr/article/7/1/1/199957/Climate-Apartheid-The-Forgetting-of-Race-in-the.

The Taíno 

• Taino Gallery Guide – Smithsonian Institution. https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/pdf/Taino-Gallery-Guide-English.pdf.

 Puerto Rico’s Sugar Economy

• Suarez, Nydia. “The Rise and Decline of Puerto Rico’s Sugar Economy – USDA.” Economic Research Service , 1998, https://www.ers.usda.gov/media/5cppjuyp/rise-and-decline-of-puertorico_5_17.pdf.

Building Environmental Justice

• Lloréns, Hilda. Making Livable Worlds : Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice. University of Washington Press, 2021

Post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico

• Aldarondo , Cecilia, director. Landfall . PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 10 June 2021, https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/landfall/. Accessed 2 May 2023. 
• Klein, Naomi. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists. Haymarket Books, 2018.

Mapping Environmental Justice

• Ejolt. “Ejatlas: Mapping Environmental Justice.” Environmental Justice Atlas, https://ejatlas.org/.