Webinar 1 | Race Matters: Unpack Key Concepts to Advance Racial Equity

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Webinar 1 | Race Matters: Unpack Key Concepts to Advance Racial Equity

November 1, 2018 | 1:00-2:30 pm EST

This webinar will unpack the concepts that are most critical to advance racial equity within organizations. Participants of the 90-minute webinar will explore the distinctions between diversity, inclusion and equity; the different forms of racism; and how race, place and class influence desired community outcomes. These definitions and distinctions are essential for productive organizational engagement around issues of race and equity.

Pre-reading

Angela Glover Blackwell, The Curb-Cut Effect. This article is useful for recognizing that strategies that are instituted for one segment of the population can be useful for others as well, underlining that we should not think of what’s designed for others as a zero sum game.

Slides

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Click here to see notes capturing key takeaways from the webinar.

Resources

Books

The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide, by Meizhu Lui
When Affirmative Action was White, by Ira Katznelson
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Olou
White Rage, by Carol Anderson
Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity, by Clara E. Rodriguez
Racism Without Racists, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
We Were Eight Year in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin DiAngelo

Podcasts and Film

Tools

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