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The Following Are Some Suggested Readings and Videos That Might Help The following are some suggested readings and videos that might help REJI Change Teams start their own internal conversations related to Racial Equity in their organization. They are arranged somewhat thematically in case a team or group wants to explore a more particular subject (although all of them are interrelated). 1. Getting on the Same Page (we recommend all change teams explore this unit) Some readings Ben and Jerry's - https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2016/systemic-racism-is-real Ijeoma Oluo - So You Want to Talk About Race (Chapter 1) - http://lgbtqia.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/images/oluo_-_what_if_i_talk_about_race_wrong.pdf YES Magazine - My White Friend Asked Me to Explain Privilege - https://www.yesmagazine.org/people- power/my-white-friend-asked-me-on-facebook-to-explain-white-privilege-i-decided-to-be-honest- 20170809 Racial Equity Tools glossary of Terms - https://www.racialequitytools.org/glossary#structural-racism Some Videos Deconstructing White Privilege with Robin D'Angelo - Ted Talk (20 min) - https://youtu.be/h7mzj0cVL0Q Is Racism Over Yet - Laci Green (6 min) https://youtu.be/h_hx30zOi9I 2. Noticing how whiteness shows up in organizations? Some readings Seeing and Naming Racism in NonProfits and Public Organizations - http://www.mayenoconsulting.com/wordpress/seeing-and-naming-racism-in-nonprofit-and-public- organizations/ Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture - http://www.cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/dr- culture.html Emily Chiariello - Why Talk About Whiteness? - https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/summer- 2016/why-talk-about-whiteness White culture worksheet - http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/whtieculturehandout.pdf 8 Ways People of Color Are Tokenized in Nonprofits - https://medium.com/the-nonprofit-revolution/8- ways-people-of-color-are-tokenized-in-nonprofits-32138d0860c1 Some Videos Peggy McIntosh - How Studying Privilege Systems can Strengthen Community (19 min) - https://youtu.be/e-BY9UEewHw (see also her list Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf) Derald Wing Sue - Micro-Aggressions (5 min)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJL2P0JsAS4 Interrupting interpersonal racism - Joy DeGruy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9QBnPK6Yg 3. Moving Deeper into the Conversation Some Readings Jamie Grant - Emptying the White knapsack - http://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/emptying-the-white- knapsack/ Lori Lakin - What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-i-said-when-my-white-friend-asked-for-my- black_us_578c0770e4b0b107a2415b89 Ijeoma Oluo - White People: I Don’t Want You To Understand Me Better, I Want You To Understand Yourselves - https://medium.com/the-establishment/white-people-i-dont-want-you-to-understand-me- better-i-want-you-to-understand-yourselves-a6fbedd42ddf Healing from internalized Oppression - https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/culture/cultural- competence/healing-from-interalized-oppression/main Exploring my own racism - https://medium.com/@mbyruck/notes-on-confronting-my-own-racism- dd80084bec7b?fbclid=IwAR32IZ7w7Ylw27EdpZ-QFLVyLCugkjwVFEESwFRoceC1SvpuabdGLZvdfYg Some Videos Jay Smooth - Moving the Race Conversation Forward - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjGQaz1u3V4 What it Means to be American - https://youtu.be/2nmhAJYxFT4 4. Taking It Even Further Some Readings Why we must talk about the Asian American story too - https://theundefeated.com/features/why-we- must-talk-about-the-asian-american-story-too/ Dr. Ken Hardy - Healing the Hidden Wounds of Racial trauma - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/545cdfcce4b0a64725b9f65a/t/54da3451e4b0ac9bd1d1cd30/14 23586385564/Healing.pdf Allan Johnson - Where White Privilege Came From - http://www.agjohnson.us/essays/whiteprivilege/ Kelsey Blackwell - Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People - https://arrow- journal.org/why-people-of-color-need-spaces-without-white-people/ A compendium of Organizational Change Resources is available at : http://racialequitytools.org/act/strategies/organizational-change-processes Changing the narrative about Native Americans - https://rnt.firstnations.org/wp- content/uploads/2018/06/MessageGuide-Allies-screen.pdf Awake to Woke to Work - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56b910ccb6aa60c971d5f98a/t/5adf3de1352f530132863c37/152 4579817415/ProInspire-Equity-in-Center-publication.pdf Videos Series - Mirrors of Privilege - Making Whiteness Visible (Parts 1 - 5) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYJl0PECv8&list=PLp1fRxWVs74_fNq9aaVCeg8thij4kaUz4 An excellent, multi-part series of lectures covering an array of topics is available at: https://www.puttingracismonthetable.org/expandingthetableforracialequity D. Joy deGruy - Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - ( 1hr 21 min) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGjSday7f_8 A conversation with White people on Race - (6 min) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXow7olFyIM Dr. John Powell - Putting Racism on the Table (1 hr) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii4pLywfGnU&t=1750s Internalized oppression Black self/White world - Jabari Lyles (10 min) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF5K3J_Z8nk A conversation with ______________ on Race - NY Times series (each video under 10 minutes) - https://www.nytimes.com/column/op-docs Podcasts Seeing White - Explores the history and impact of Whiteness - http://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing- white/ Code switch - NPR's podcast about many different topics relate to race - https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/ .
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