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Cullors (2022) An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World

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In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cull…

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Kaba (2021) We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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Kaba (2021) We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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New York Times Bestseller “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, i…

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Pascarella (2021) Learning and Engaging in Productive Allyship Practices

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Pascarella (2021) Learning and Engaging in Productive Allyship Practices

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Kimberlé Crenshaw (2016) The Urgency of Intersectionality

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Kimberlé Crenshaw (2016) The Urgency of Intersectionality

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The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw | TED

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"We often describe a wonderful book as 'mind-blowing' or 'life-changing' but I've found this rarely to actually be the case. I found both descriptions accurate for Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning... I will never look at racial discrimination again after reading this marvellous, ambitious, and clear-sighted book."
-George Saunders, Financial Times, Best Books of 2017

"An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.... The greatest service Kendi [provides] is the ruthless prosecution of American ideas about race for their tensions, contradiction and unintended consequences."-Washington Post

"A deep (and often disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of American society."-The Atlantic

"A staggering intellectual history of racism in America that is both rigorous and ...readable."-New Republic

"An intricate look at the history of race in the U.S., arguing that many well-meaning American progressives inadvertently operate on belief systems tinged with a racist heritage."-TIME

"Ambitious, well-researched and worth the time of anyone who wants to understand racism."
-Seattle Times

"Kendi upends many commonly held beliefs about how racism works, exploring the ideas and thinkers behind our most intractable social and cultural problem."-Boston Globe

"An altogether remarkable thesis on history, but, in ways that are both moving and immediately painful, it also reverberates with the post-election autopsy we're all conducting right now... Stamped from the Beginning is a riveting (and often rivetingly written) work, well deserving of the National Book Award."-The Stranger

"The National Book Awards show the way toward the America we want, not the one we're getting."-New York Magazine

"Kendi has done something that's damn near impossible: write a book about racism that breaks new ground, while being written in a way that's accessible to the nonacademic. If you've ever been interested in how racist ideas spread throughout the United States, this is the book to read."-The Root

"Kendi is able to decisively quell the arguments that racism is a bygone byproduct of ignorance...Kendi's writing style is plainspoken, detail-oriented, and straightforward...In the midst of leaving Jefferson and his fellows open to judgment, Kendi leaves plenty of room for self-questioning, and for drawing connections between the racist apologetics of the past and those of the present. The process makes for a compelling, thoroughly enlightening, unsettling, and necessary read."-Vox

"Ambitious...Kendi bases his exhaustive study in one central thought: Racist ideas...have historically sprung from racist policies, and self-preservation of the ruling class. The policy leads to the ideology, not vice versa."-Dallas Morning News

"This book should be on every young leader's bookshelf. It's not pretty, but the truth often isn't."-Forbes Online

"Self-proclaimed as a definitive history of racist ideas in the US, this exhaustive, encyclopedic opus lives up to that claim. Kendi's mighty tome is breathtaking in its scope.... Both worthwhile and extraordinary.... Essential."-CHOICE

"An accomplished history of racist thought and practice in the United States from the Puritans to the present... In this tour de force, Kendi explores the history of racist ideas-and their connection with racist practices-across American history.... Racism is the enduring scar on the American consciousness. In this ambitious, magisterial book, Kendi reveals just how deep that scar cuts and why it endures, its barely subcutaneous pain still able to flare."-Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"I honestly wish every American would read this book, especially people who haven't been exposed to the history of blatant, transparent racism in our public policy."
-Chicago Review of Books, Best Books of 2016

"Perhaps the most significant book of 2016, this National Book Award winner is a lucid, highly readable look at the origins of racist ideas in the United States."
-The Daily Kos

"This heavily researched yet easily readable volume explores the roots and the effects of racism in America. The narrative smoothly weaves throughout history, culminating in the declaration that as much as we'd like it to be, America today is nowhere near the 'postracial' country that the media declared following the election of Barack Obama in 2008. The hope here is that by studying and remembering the lessons of history, we may be able to move forward to an equitable society."-Booklist

"Kendi's provocative egalitarian argument combines prodigious reading and research with keen insights into the manipulative power of racist ideologies that suppress the recognition of diversity. This is a must for serious readers of American history, politics, or social thought."-Library Journal

"A work as prodigious as the subtitle implies.... Had Kendi only provided history, Stamped from the Beginning would be a meaningful contribution to the literature, but it is so much more. It a call for all Americans to look inward."-Albany Times Union

"In his relentless odyssey through the making of America's particular brand of prejudice...Kendi challenges our assumptions about racism by exposing the development of racist ideas-and their connection to racist actions and policies throughout our history."-Stephenie Livingston, University of Florida

" Stamped from the Beginning is a history of how racist ideas are built, and how they are built to last. Understanding this history is essential if we want to have any hope of progress. This book will forever change the way we think about race."-Touré, MSNBC contributor and author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness

"Both a penetrating treatise and a wonderfully accessible work of intellectual history, Stamped from the Beginning reveals the heritage of ideas behind the modern dialectic of race-denial and race-obsession. By historicizing our entrenched logic of racial difference, Kendi shows why "I don't see color" and other professions of post-racialism remain inexorable alibis for white supremacy. Stamped from the Beginning has done the cause of anti-racism a great service."
-Russell Rickford, Associate Professor, Cornell University, and author of We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination

"Ibram Kendi is an important new voice in African American intellectual and social history. This book, an intellectual history of racist ideas, promises to break important new ground for scholarly and general audiences interested in the construction of racism in America."-Peniel E. Joseph, author of Stokely: A Life and Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour

"Richly sourced and engaging, Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning is a highly accessible yet provocative study that seeks to complicate our understanding of racist ideas and the forces that produce them."-Yohuru Williams, Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Fairfield University

" Stamped from the Beginning delivers a timely and bold corrective to the history of racist and anti-racist ideas that explodes our understanding of the root of anti-black violence as we know it today. Kendi's deft analysis of key thinkers from Cotton Mather to Angela Davis illustrates how racial thought, specifically debates about racial difference, take shape across space and time and influence racial policies and the persistence of racial discrimination. This book is a must read for those interested in working to unearth the foundational ideas and practices that hinder true racial progress."-Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Associate Professor, Brown University, and author of Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil

"In his ambitious, illuminating, and engaging book, Ibram X. Kendi seamlessly assembles sources from Cotton Mather to Angela Davis; the Great Awakening to Black Lives Matter; the Birth of a Nation to Hip Hop culture, to show how not only race but racist ideas are at the center of American thought."
-Paula J. Giddings, EA Woodson Professor, Smith College, and author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

"Blending deep research and analysis with a powerfully intimate and personal voice, Kendi...renders this work of intellectual history as compelling as the juiciest biography."-Los Angeles Times

"Kendi's unusually original and groundbreaking analysis is the product of an almost clinical modus operandi. First, he formulates a clear and simple definition of what constitutes a racist idea ("any concept that regards one racial group as inferior or superior to another racial group in any way"). He then unflinchingly applies that definition to the work of individual historical figures and to the ideas on race, slavery, segregation and integration that prevailed at various stages in US history. Like a laboratory scientist, he then interprets the results."-The Guardian

"One thing is sure. Stamped from the Beginning will be read by future generations. It has the potential to become a classic, must-read chronicle in the vast historiography on antiblack racist thought in the United States."-Public Books

Bold Type Books, 9781568585987, 608pp.

Publication Date: August 15, 2017

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The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever.

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Abolitionist Allyship is a professional learning series for Pasadena City College staff and faculty that aims to engage participants in opportunities to reflect critically on race and racism, analyze the sources of racial socialization, interrogate individual complicity and reproduction of racial bias, and learn actionable racial allyship strategies.

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Pasadena City College is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you desire an accommodation related to your disability, please email Human Resources at hrgeneral@pasadena.edu or call (626) 585-7388. Your request should include a general description of your functional limitation and the type of accommodation you are requesting, and be submitted at least 10 working days before the event to ensure availability.

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Pasadena City College is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you desire an accommodation related to your disability, please email Human Resources at hrgeneral@pasadena.edu or call (626) 585-7388. Your request should include a general description of your functional limitation and the type of accommodation you are requesting, and be submitted at least 10 working days before the event to ensure availability.

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Session 2 Reflective Inventory Worksheet

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Session 2 Reflective Inventory Worksheet

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Abolitionist Allyship, Part 2 Reflective Inventory

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Celeste Headlee: 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation

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Celeste Headlee: 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation

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Crenshaw (1989) Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex - A Black Feminist Critique

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Crenshaw (1989) Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex - A Black Feminist Critique

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Crenshaw (1989) Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex - A Black Feminist Critique

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Drago-Severson & Blum-Destefano (2017) The Self in Social Justice

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Drago-Severson & Blum-Destefano (2017) The Self in Social Justice

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Klein (2019) Teaching Intersectionality Through "I Am From..."

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Kendi (2020) Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action

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Kendi (2020) Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action

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Reflect on your understanding of race and discover ways to work toward an antiracist future with this guided journal from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning.Antiracism is not a destination but a journey--one that takes deliberate, consi…

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Oluo (2019) So You Want to Talk About Race

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So You Want to Talk About Race

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Other Editions of This Title:
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Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America
Protests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. The stakes for transformative conversations about race could not be higher. Still, the task ahead seems daunting, and it's hard to know where to start. How do you tell your boss her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law hang up on you when you had questions about police reform? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend?

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American life.

"Simply put: Ijeoma Oluo is a necessary voice and intellectual for these times, and any time, truth be told." ― Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can't Touch My Hair

Praise For So You Want to Talk About Race...

"Simply put: Ijeoma Oluo is a necessary voice and intellectual for these times, and any time, truth be told."- Phoebe Robinson, New York Times-bestselling author of You Can't Touch My Hair

"Oluo is out to help put words to action, which at this day and age, might be exactly what we need."-Forbes

"Impassioned and unflinching"
-Vogue.com

"Fascinating, real, and necessary."-The Root

"Read it, then recommend it to everyone you know."-Harper's Bazaar (Named a Top 10 Book of the Year)

"I don't think I've ever seen a writer have such an instant, visceral, electric impact on readers. Ijeoma Oluo's intellectual clarity and moral sure-footedness make her the kind of unstoppable force that obliterates the very concept of immovable objects."- Lindy West, New York Times-bestselling author of Shrill

"A guidebook for those who want to confront racism and white supremacy in their everyday lives, but are unsure where to start."-Bitch

"Oluo offers us a reset, a starting point, a clear way forward."- dream hampton, writer, activist, filmmaker, and executive producer of Surviving R. Kelly

"A must-read primer on the politics of American racism."-Bustle

Seal Press, 9781580058827, 272pp.

Publication Date: September 24, 2019

About the Author

Ijeoma Oluo is the author of Mediocre and a writer and speaker whose work on race has been featured in the  New York Times and the Washington Post. She was named to the 2021 Time 100 Next list, has twice been named to  The Root 100, and received the Harvard Humanist of the Year award. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

1. In Chapter 1, "Is it really about race?," the author states: "It is about race if a person of color thinks it is about race. It is about race if it disproportionately or differently affects people of color. It is about race if it fits into a broader pattern of events that disproportionately or differently affect people of color." After reading the author's explanation of these points, can you think of social or political issues that many people currently believe are not about race, but actually may be? Which of the above guidelines for understanding when it is about race fit those issues?

2. The chapter about privilege is placed right before the chapter on intersectionality. The author has stated in interviews that she placed those chapters in that order because it is impossible to fully understand intersectionality without first comprehending privilege. How do the concepts discussed in the chapter "Why am I always being told to check my privilege?" help deepen your understanding of intersectionality and help implement intersectionality into your life?

3. The author states that she grew up in a majority white, liberal area and was raised by a white mother. How might that upbringing have influenced the way that she wrote this book? How might it have influenced the personal events she describes in the book? How might this book have been different if written by a black person with a different upbringing, or if written by a person of color of a different race?

4. Throughout the book, the author makes it clear that this book is written for both white people and people of color. But does the author expect white people and people of color to read and experience this book in the same way? What are some of the ways in which the author indicates how she expects white people and people of color to react and interact with portions of the book? What are some of the ways in which the author discusses the different roles that white people and people of color will play in fighting systemic racism in our society?

5. In Chapter 12, "What are microaggressions?," the author lists some of the racial microaggressions that her friends of color said that they often hear. What are some of the racial microaggressions that you have encountered or witnessed? What are some that you may have perpetrated on others?

6. Chapter 15, "But what if I hate Al Sharpton?," discusses the issue of respectability politics and tone policing. What burdens of "respectability" and "tone" do you see placed on different populations of color in our society?

7. The final chapter, "Talking is great, but what else can I do?," discusses some actions you can take to battle systemic racism using the knowledge you've gained from this book and from your conversations on race. What are some actions you can take in your community, your schools, your workplace, and your local government? What are some local antiracism efforts in your community that you can join or support?

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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaProtests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. The stakes for transformative conversations about race could not be higher. Still, the task ahead seems daunting, and it’s hard to know where to start.

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Saad (2020) Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal

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Saad (2020) Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal

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Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal: The Official Companion to the New York Times Bestselling Book Me and White Supremacy | IndieBound.org

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Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor with Me and White SupremacyAuthor Layla F. Saad wrote Me and White Supremacy to encourage people who hold white privilege to examine their (often unconscious) racist thoughts and behaviors through a unique, 28-day reflection process complete with journaling prompts.

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Singh (2019) The Racial Healing Handbook

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Singh (2019) The Racial Healing Handbook

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The Racial Healing Handbook (Paperback)
Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing
By Anneliese A. Singh, Tim Wise (Foreword by), Derald Wing Sue (Afterword by)

New Harbinger Publications, 9781684032709, 240pp.

Publication Date: August 1, 2019

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About the Author

Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LPC, is a professor and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the college of education at the University of Georgia. Singh is cofounder of the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition to work on reducing heterosexism, transprejudice, racism, and other oppressions in Georgia schools. She founded the Trans Resilience Project, where she translated her findings from nearly twenty years of research on trans people's resilience to oppression into practice and advocacy efforts. She is author of The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook. She's delivered widely viewed TEDx Talks, and recorded a podcast for the American Psychological Association on her research with transgender youth and resilience. Foreword writer Tim Wise is among the nation's most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past twenty-five years speaking to audiences in all fifty US states, at more than 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the nation. He has lectured internationally in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, law enforcement, and medical industry professionals on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. Afterword writer Derald Wing Sue, PhD, is professor of psychology and education in the department of counseling and clinical psychology at Teachers College and the School of Social Work, Columbia University. He is a pioneer in the field of multicultural psychology, multicultural education, multicultural counseling and therapy, and the psychology of racism/antiracism.

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Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing By Anneliese A. Singh, Tim Wise (Foreword by), Derald Wing Sue (Afterword by) New Harbinger Publications, 9781684032709, 240pp. Publication Date: August 1, 2019 * Individual store prices may vary. About the Author Anneliese A.

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26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias, and Identity with Students (The NY Times)

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26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias, and Identity with Students (The NY Times)

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26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students (Published 2017)

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To help teachers make the most of these films, we also provide a grab-bag of teaching ideas, related readings and student activities.

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Coaston (2019) The Intersectionality Wars

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When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.

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Harper (2021) Race in the Workplace: Time Magazine & Zoom

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Racial Equity Tools Glossary

Words and their multiple uses reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our society. Indeed, universally agreed upon language on issues relating to racism is nonexistent. We discovered that even the most frequently used words in any discussion on race can easily cause confusion, which leads to controversy and hostility. It is essential to achieve some degree of shared understanding, particularly when using the most common terms. In this way, the quality of dialogue and discourse on race can be enhanced.

Language can be used deliberately to engage and support community anti-racism coalitions and initiatives, or to inflame and divide them. Discussing definitions can engage and support coalitions. However, it is important for groups to decide the extent to which they must have consensus and where it is okay for people to disagree. It is also helpful to keep in mind that the words people use to discuss power, privilege, racism and oppression hold different meanings for different people. For instance, people at different stages of developing an analysis tend to attach different meanings to words like discrimination, privilege and institutional racism. Furthermore, when people are talking about privilege or racism, the words they use often come with emotions and assumptions that are not spoken.

Many of the terms in this glossary have evolved over time. For example, given the changing demographic trends in the United States, the word "minority" no longer accurately reflects the four primary racial/ethnic groups. The terms "emerging majority" and "people of color" have become popular substitutes. Also, the terms used to refer to members of each community of color have changed over time. Whether to use the terms African American or Black, Hispanic American, Latinx or Latino, Native American or American Indian, and Pacific Islander or Asian American depends on a variety of conditions, including your intended audiences' geographic location, age, generation, and, sometimes, political orientation.

SOURCE: Project Change's "The Power of Words." Originally produced for Project Change Lessons Learned II, also included in A Community Builder's Toolkit - both produced by Project Change and The Center for Assessment and Policy Development with some modification by RacialEquityTools.org.

The main source for each definition is noted with its term below. Some definitions are paraphrased or updated. If you plan to use a couple of the terms in your materials, we encourage you to keep the SOURCE citation(s) that we have listed for them.

You can download a PDF version of this glossary . Please feel free to share the RET Glossary PDF or post a link on your site. We request that you use the following citation: Racial Equity Tools Glossary, MP Associates, Center for Assessment and Policy Development, and World Trust Educational Services, July 2022.

For guidance on evaluation terms in particular, see .

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Words and their multiple uses reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our society. Indeed, universally agreed upon language on issues relating to racism is nonexistent. In this way, the quality of dialogue and discourse on race can be enhanced.

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University of Michigan Program on Intergroup Relations: Social Identity Groups Handout

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University of Michigan Program on Intergroup Relations: Social Identity Groups Handout

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USC Race and Equity Center + Center for Urban Education: Racial Equity Tools

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USC Race and Equity Center + Center for Urban Education: Racial Equity Tools

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CUE's Racial Equity Tools aim to change the minds, hearts, and practices of faculty, staff, and leaders-all of whose collaboration is essential to achieve racial equity in higher education.

Each tool prompts reflection on the racialized characteristics of everyday practices, setting the foundation for change.

The tools are organized into four flexible phases:

Using the Racial Equity Tools

We borrow a principle of community organizing: to bring about transformation, you have to meet people where they are-and give them tools to build their own knowledge and self-change.

These tools reflect this idea and are inherently flexible approaches with practical activities embedded within them. Though the tools are organized into four phases, they naturally support a race-focused continuous improvement process: inquiring and observing, experimenting with changes, evaluating progress, and learning.

SO WHO ARE THESE TOOLS FOR?
Practitioners who have not dedicated much time or thought to reflecting on race and racism in higher education before. These practitioners may recognize diversity in a student body, but may not make a point to measure whether diverse racial / ethnic groups are equitably succeeding-or may see disparities in student outcomes, but attribute those disparities to students' effort or abilities rather than inadequate institutional policies and practices. The tools will help them build a new actionable, equity-minded view.

Practitioners who are aware of the role race and racism play in higher education, but aren't sure what to do about it. The tools will help them apply inquiry to deepen their understanding and identify problematic policies or practices to reform.

Practitioners who are well-versed in issues of race and possess a critical race perspective, but are struggling to get colleagues or leaders on board. The tools can help these practitioners speak to those that fall in either of the first groups mentioned, and build a shared vocabulary and plan for inquiry-driven, anti-racist action.

In the past, CUE facilitators have helped groups use these tools, but you may use them on your own-the content in phase one will help orient you and your team.

READY TO USE CUE'S RACIAL EQUITY TOOLS? START HERE

What is CUE?

Founded in 1999 by Estela Bensimon, the Center for Urban Education (CUE), now part of the Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, helps individuals learn to use data, inquiry, and self-reflection to see institutional racism and dismantle it, one practice at a time.

CUE has developed tools to empower faculty and staff to become equity-minded practitioners who have the critical consciousness, will, and ability to combat institutionalized racism.

Why racial equity?

CUE's equity efforts are focused specifically on race and ethnicity in light of historical and current oppression in American education. Our goal is to achieve equity in outcomes for racially minoritized students-both in attainment and retention as well as in access to scarce opportunities like honors programs and high-value degrees such as in STEM fields.

For this to happen, there must be a shared understanding that colleges and universities have and continue to perform poorly for minoritized students, and that racial inequities are an outcome of structures, policies, and practices that are presumed to be race-neutral.

This is the root of equity-mindedness, a term that CUE coined to refer to the mode of thinking exhibited by practitioners who are willing to acknowledge that their policies and practices have not been designed to produce racial equity and that they need to be rethought and remediated in order to do so.

"I wanted to transform racial equity from an ideal that was embraced in the abstract to something that was actionable and measurable."

Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon,
University Professor & Dean's Professor in Educational Equity,
Founding Director, Center for Urban Education

How do we foster equity-mindedness?

The tools use action inquiry to help practitioners develop critical race consciousness: an understanding of how the way they operate produces racial inequity. The tools enable practitioners to see how racism is reflected in what they notice and fail to notice, what they consider good and not good, and what they say and fail to say-even in the absence of underlying intent.

Rooted in the tradition of critical action research, the tools provide practitioners with a structured process of studying their own actions and artifacts of practice. By learning to use disaggregated data and inquiry to "see" who, by race and ethnicity, is and isn't served by those actions and artifacts, practitioners can begin to make contextualized changes.

"An equity-minded practitioner commits to lifelong learning, actively participates in dismantling systems of oppression, and believes in the limitless potential of Black, Latinx, Native American, and other minoritized student groups."

Jennifer Ortiz
English Department Chair, LA Trade Tech College

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Each tool prompts reflection on the racialized characteristics of everyday practices, setting the foundation for change. The tools are organized into four flexible phases: We borrow a principle of community organizing: to bring about transformation, you have to meet people where they are-and give them tools to build their own knowledge and self-change.

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Hopkins (2018) What is Intersectionality?

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Hopkins (2018) What is Intersectionality?

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Kaur, H. (2020, Sept. 4) About 93% of racial justice protests in the US have been peaceful. CNN.

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Kaur, H. (2020, Sept. 4) About 93% of racial justice protests in the US have been peaceful. CNN.

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about 93% of racial justice protests in the us have been peaceful

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About 93% of racial justice protests in the US have been peaceful, a new report finds

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The report, released Thursday, contradicts assumptions and claims by some that protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement are spawning violence and destruction of property.

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Jillian McRae and Sam North: Race Conversations in the Classroom

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Jillian McRae and Sam North: Race Conversations in the Classroom

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Jillian McRae and Sam North: Race conversations in the classroom

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Jillian McRae and Sam North co-facilitate a course about classism, sexism, and racism at Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York that creates space for students to have courageous conversations and make intentional choices about their involvement in their communities.

How do students react when the conversation centers institutional structures rather than individual acts?

What happens when high school students frame their examination of systems around those who benefit the most from them, and are encouraged to have honest discussions about the “isms” these systems create with their peers?

Learn and see more stories at www.crestories.org

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Project Eñye (2015) Latino High School Students Find Inspiration From Epic Poem "I Am Joaquin"

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Project Eñye (2015) Latino High School Students Find Inspiration From Epic Poem "I Am Joaquin"

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Latino High School Students Find Inspiration From Epic Poem “I Am Joaquin”

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Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz (2019) The Archaeology of Self

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Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz (2019) The Archaeology of Self

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Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz: The archaeology of the self

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How do issues of race, class, religion, and sexual orientation live within us? How does our societal conditioning shape the way educators show up in classrooms?

Bronx native Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz challenges educators to examine their views on the communities and students they serve.

Using an archaeological approach, Sealey-Ruiz mentors educators of all backgrounds on how to do the "deep work" of excavating their personal histories and activating their racial consciousness as a precursor to theorizing about pedagogy.

Learn and see more episodes at www.crestories.org

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Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz: Featured Interviews, Speeches, & Past Events

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Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz: Featured Interviews, Speeches, & Past Events

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Videos

Featured Interviews and Speeches

Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz recites Maya Angelou's, Still I Rise.

Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz spoke in conversation with Dr. Bettina Love and Genevieve DeBose Akinnagbe, about Dr. Love's book, "We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom".

The Arts and Humanities Department at Teachers College were highlighting remarkable faculty and students. Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz was one the faculty featured for #WomensHistoryMonth, and discussed her book, Love from the Vortex (Kaleidoscope Vibrations, LLC) - which charts her journey of finding and losing love over the span of three decades with six different men who came into her life at various times, but also offers a universal take on what can happen when one seeks love and connection with others, and the lessons that follow when that connection and love is lost.

Featured Podcasts

Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz was featured on the podcast, 3 Educated Brothas . In conversation with Dr. Edmund Adjapong, P. Gladston Williamson and Marc Pierre, Yolanda discussed her first, full-length poetry book, Love from the Vortex & Other Poems. The podcast is all about things education through the experiences of 3 Black men.

Click here to listen to the entire episode. Click here for more information on the podcast.

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The first episode of the NYC Healing Collective podcast featured Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz. In conversation with Angel Acosta, co-founder of the NYC Healing Collective, both discuss what it means to heal through the Archeology of the Self.

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The NYC Healing Collective amplifies people and insights at the intersection of healing, wellness and societal transformation.

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Click here to listen to the entire episode. Click here for more information on the NYC Healing Collective.

On Thursday, July 2nd, I joined Dr. Shamaine Bertrand and Dr. Kisha Porcher of Black Gaze Podcast to discuss how Love from the Vortex and Other Poems is the manifestation of my radical Black Self Love and Healing.

Throughout this live event, we had a critical conversation about how we must love ourselves deeply and become critically conscious about the trauma we have experienced in learning to love ourselves and others. To listen to the episode, click here.

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Videos Featured Interviews and Speeches Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz recites Maya Angelou's, Still I Rise. Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz spoke in conversation with Dr. Bettina Love and Genevieve DeBose Akinnagbe, about Dr. Love's book, "We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom".

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Luvvie Ajayi Jones (2018) Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

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Luvvie Ajayi Jones (2018) Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable | Luvvie Ajayi Jones | TED

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Ashlee Marie Preston (2018) Effective Allyship: A Transgender Take on Intersectionality

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Ashlee Marie Preston (2018) Effective Allyship: A Transgender Take on Intersectionality

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Effective Allyship: A Transgender Take on Intersectionality | Ashlee Marie Preston | TEDxPasadena