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Advancing Racial Equity and Transforming Government: A Resource Guide to Put Ideas Into Action
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This toolkit is based on the lessons learned from practitioners, as well as academic experts and national technical assistance providers. You may be participating in a structured workshop and using it as a part of the workshop; or you may be using it as a reference. It is a resource that will hopefully be informative, but more importantly, one that we hope will assist government leaders in operationalizing racial equity.
Colorlines
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Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation. It is published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media, and practice.
Decentering Whiteness
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This paper explores the expiration of whiteness as the mainstream cultural norm, and features the current centralized white-male domination of central society. They contend that it is still very white, and more similar to its historical position of being nearly all-white than to some future time when the mainstream
might be truly multiracial.
Education Department Report Offers Data on Black Teachers in U.S. K-12 Schools
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A new report from the U.S. Department of Education looks at teachers in the nation’s public and private K-12 schools. Some of the data is broken down by racial and ethnic group.
The report documents that in the 2017-18 academic year, 80 percent of all teachers in K-12 schools in the United States are White. Only 6.3 percent are Black/African American. Blacks make up 11 percent of the teachers in city schools but only 5.5 percent of the teachers in suburban schools and 3.6 percent in rural schools. Blacks are 11 percent of the teachers in the nation’s charter schools.
In the nation’s K-12 private schools, Whites make up 85.1 percent of all teachers. Blacks are 3.2 percent of all teachers in K-12 private schools.
Experiences with Race and Racism
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This provides an opportunity for students to learn about the language of bias and racism, explore a range of stories (through video and written pieces) of young people’s first encounters with race and racism and reflect on their own early experiences through a writing assignment. This prompt uses stories from The New York Times Race/Related column on First Encounters with Racism in which teenagers across the country responded to the question: “What is your earliest experience dealing with race?”
First Encounters With Race and Racism: Teaching Ideas for Classroom Conversations
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This is a guest lesson from Jinnie Spiegler, the director of curriculum at the Anti-Defamation League. It explores and prompts discussion about early experiences with racism, implicit bias, police relations, and how to engage in social media-based race-related dialogue.
Our Approach GARE
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Developing a network of government focusing on racial equity is critically important to getting to different outcomes in our communities. The goal must be beyond closing the gaps; we must lift up overall outcomes, focusing efforts those who are faring worst. Deeply racialized systems are costly and depress outcomes and life chances for us collectively. To advance equity, government must focus not only on individual programs, but also on policy and institutional strategies that are driving the production of inequities.
The following six strategies are critical:
Use a racial equity framework
Build organizational capacity
Be data-driven
Partner with other institutions and communities
Operate with urgency and accountability
Race Forward
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Race Forward Research conducts cutting-edge, original, and broadly accessible research on pressing racial justice issues focused on the significance of race to social and economic outcomes in our society. Race Forward Research seeks to provide evidence of the entrenched and systemic barriers to racial justice. Their research acknowledges the impact that individual acts of racism have on people of color, we primarily seek to contextualize them within a deeper, structural analysis of racial injustice. Underpinning our rigorous research is the belief that a true understanding of racial justice issues requires an explicit, though not exclusive, examination of race and ethnicity. Race Forward’s Research agenda is built around understanding how race compounds and intersects with other societal issues. At Race Forward, we refer to this intersectional approach as “race and …” In addition to developing original research and data on pressing race issues, Race Forward Research also highlights ways to nurture and strengthen social change.
Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity
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Racial equity tools are designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decisions, including policies, practices, programs, and budgets. It is both a product and a process. The use of a racial equity tool can help to develop strategies and actions that reduce racial inequities and improve success for all groups.
The defining moment: children's conceptualization of race and experiences with racial discrimination
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This paper examines whether children of marginalized racial/ethnic groups have an awareness of race at earlier ages than youth from non-marginalized groups, documents their experiences with racial discrimination and utilizes a modified racism-related stress model to explore the relationship between perceived racial discrimination and self-esteem. Data were collected for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white and Hispanic children aged 7–12 using face-to-face interviews (n=175). The concept of race was measured by assessing whether children could define race, if not a standard definition was provided. Racial discrimination was measured using the Williams Every-day-Discrimination Scale, self-esteem was measured using the Rosenberg Scale and ethnic identity was assessed using the Multi-group Ethnic Identity Measure. Non-Hispanic black children were able to define race more accurately, but overall Hispanic children encountered more racial discrimination, with frequent reports of ethnic slurs. Additionally, after accounting for ethnic identity, perceived racial discrimination remained a salient stressor that contributed to low self-esteem.
What is Theory of Change?
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Theory of Change is essentially a comprehensive description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context. It is focused in particular on mapping out or “filling in” what has been described as the “missing middle” between what a program or change initiative does (its activities or interventions) and how these lead to desired goals being achieved. It does this by first identifying the desired long-term goals and then works back from these to identify all the conditions (outcomes) that must be in place (and how these related to one another causally) for the goals to occur.
WHITE FRAGILITY – NO, IT IS USING POWER TO HOARD EMOTIONAL ATTENTION
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Current institutional systems default to centering whiteness, and the focus on white fragility has given some white people and white institutions the ability to continue to center whiteness under the banner of racial equity. Here are a few draft suggestions to move racial equity concepts that center whiteness to more descriptive terms that move us closer to racial justice.
White Fragility = Hoarding of Emotional Attention
White Defensiveness = Refusing to Believe People of Color
White Guilt = Stalling Until I Feel Better
White Silence = I Don’t Care Enough to Say Something
White Tears = Please Feel Sorry for Me Too
Why Lead With Race?
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The Alliance leads with race, with the recognition that the creation and perpetuation of racial inequities has been baked into government, and that racial inequities across all indicators for success are deep and pervasive. Focusing on racial equity provides the opportunity to introduce a framework, tools and resources that can also be applied to other areas of marginalization. It is critical to address all areas of marginalization, and an institutional approach is necessary across the board. As local and regional government deepens its ability to eliminate racial inequity, it will be better equipped to transform systems and institutions impacting other marginalized groups.
