C3: Foundations and Welcome by Sarah Courchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq Welcome to the kickoff week for the Seacoast Courageous Community Conversations (C3) series! Treat these resources as a buffet--you do not need to watch/listen to/read everything; follow your curiosity and interests. Our study group sessions will give you a chance to think through and talk through these ideas, frames, ways of seeing, with others on this journey! en-us 2022-03-10 13:09:52 UTC 2025-10-04 04:56:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f308.png What people do when they're uncomfortable with dealing with discrimination. sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2091685802 2022-03-12 15:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2091685802 Take a 5-10 minute Quiz (or Two) sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2091690551 2022-03-12 15:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2091690551 Watch a video about how racism cuts us all off from our humanity. sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2091695426 2022-03-12 15:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2091695426 (Literally) check your privilege(s) sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2091728780 Everyone has some privileges and lacks others. Which things on this list do you have, and which do you lack?]]> 2022-03-12 16:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2091728780 Bobbie Harro - Cycle of Socialization KPM02 https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2093116241 This document outlines the cycle of socialization along with a graphic. Learn about the process of socialization and it's implications for how you understand yourself in relation to others and your environment. ]]> 2022-03-14 04:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2093116241 Social Identity Wheel Worksheet KPM02 https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2093123780 Use this worksheet to reflect on the concept of social identity. This is useful for personal reflection, as well as in community with others as part of larger conversations around how social identity intersects directly with social justice work. 

If you are looking to facilitate this activity and would like step-by-step instructions on how to explain, please email Kevin Pajaro-Mariñez: kpajaro02@gmail.com. ]]> 2022-03-14 04:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2093123780 Hear from folks about when they first realized they were Black. sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2252950440 2022-08-01 18:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2252950440 Why we're all suffering from racial trauma (even white people) sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2252961750 2022-08-01 19:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2252961750 Read this beautiful memoir by a Black woman who grew up in NH. sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2252962958 We have copies at our libraries if you don't want to buy it yourself!]]> 2022-08-01 19:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2252962958 Watch this eye-opening documentary about the history of racism and white supremacy in America. https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253511126 Can be watched through multiple streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video & more!]]> 2022-08-02 15:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253511126 Read about how and why the white racial identity was created in the United States (Volume I). https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253513363 When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America’s ruling classes created the category of the “white race” as a means of social control.

Volume I draws lessons from Irish history, comparing British rule in Ireland with the “white” oppression of Native Americans and African Americans. Allen details how Irish immigrants fleeing persecution learned to spread racial oppression in their adoptive country as part of white America.]]> 2022-08-02 15:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253513363 Continue reading "The Invention of the White Race" (Volume II). https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253515856 In Volume II of The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen explores the transformation that turned African bond-laborers into slaves and segregated them from their fellow proletarians of European origin. In response to labor unrest, where solidarities were not determined by skin color, the plantation bourgeoisie sought to construct a buffer of poor whites, whose new racial identity would protect them from the enslavement visited upon African Americans. This was the invention of the white race, an act of cruel ingenuity that haunts America to this day.]]> 2022-08-02 15:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253515856 White Dominant Culture & Something Different https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253597145 The way whiteness operates can be hard to pinpoint; however, this process can be so insidious that we don't even realize that whiteness helps to shape the very environments that we navigate. 

Take a look at the characteristics of white dominant culture in the left hand column ('Norms of White Dominant Culture') and think about how they might apply to you as an individual or play out in your organization. Then, take a look at the right hand column that list alternatives (or 'Something Different') and ask yourself how you could apply those to yourself, your work, or your organization?

**Tip: white dominant group norms can affect everyone, not just white people; with this, it's also encouraged that BIPOC folx work through this worksheet as well!]]> 2022-08-02 18:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253597145 White Fragility Resource Document https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253599186 This document is a helpful tool in defining white fragility, describing elements that trigger fragility, and the factors that insulate whiteness and white fragility in our society. 

For more information about white fragility, please read "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo.]]> 2022-08-02 18:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253599186 The Privileged Identity Exploration (PIE) Model Resource Document https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253600231 This document outlines the (8) defense mechanisms that occur when someone's privileged identity is confronted or made uncomfortable. ]]> 2022-08-02 18:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253600231 Whiteness as a Racial Discourse Resource Document https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253601595 This document defines the concept of "whiteness" and how this social construction operates within and helps to shape or societal and structural norms around race. ]]> 2022-08-02 18:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253601595 The Legal Foundations of Whiteness https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253604542 The central theme of this article is that American law has historically played a vital role in constructing white supremacy. While America has eliminated overt race-conscious laws that favor whites, the law continues to play a critical role in maintaining white supremacy today. ]]> 2022-08-02 18:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2253604542 How did whiteness come to be? sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290326420 Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?
Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika.
]]> 2022-09-09 23:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290326420 The Sum of Us sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290327221 2022-09-09 23:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290327221 Caste sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290327727 2022-09-09 23:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290327727 Dying of Whiteness sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290328000 2022-09-09 23:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290328000 How the Irish Became White sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290328506 2022-09-09 23:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2290328506 Sign up to learn about something every day sjcourchesne https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2303226535 Some history to meditate on every day. ]]> 2022-09-19 15:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sjcourchesne/l5n5e81v8k9awytq/wish/2303226535