A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and Our Mutual Humanity

A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and Our Mutual Humanity
Author: Steve Burghardt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781516519897

A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanityis a hands-on guide for teachers, students, and agency professionals seeking to respond skillfully and sensitively to the often daunting challenges of classrooms, as students demand both answers and accountability concerning issues of race, power, privilege, and oppression and the emotional responses they provoke. The guide includes suggestions to implement before entering the classroom, so that the necessary personal, community, and institutional infrastructure can support authentic, sustainable conversations. It discusses how educators can respond appropriately in the classroom to the hot-button issues of the day. There are also lessons for critical pedagogy and management that help educators reimagine classrooms and learn to create mutually supportive learning environments. Written by four experienced anti-racist educators and practitioners, the book takes a direct, compassionate approach designed to diminish dogma and fear. By examining how socially different people respond to the same difficult questions, A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity creates a rich set of options for readers to use in their own classrooms, agencies, and field placements. Steve Burghardt, M.S.W., Ph.D., is a professor of social work at Hunter College-CUNY. He is a noted author and an eight-time teaching award winner. Kalima DeSuze, L.M.S.W., is an adjunct professor at Hunter College-CUNY, Smith College, and Columbia Schools of Social Work. She serves as an assistant director of the Hunter College-CUNY Field Education Department. Linda Lausell Bryant, M.S.W., Ph.D., has worked as the executive director of a nonprofit youth agency and is now the executive-in-residence and clinical assistant professor of social work at New York University. Mohan Vinjamuri, L.M.S.W., Ph.D., is an assistant professor of social work at Lehman College-CUNY where he teaches courses on practice, research, and social work with LGBTQ communities.

Let's Talk About Race: A Guide for Handling Difficult Issues on Race, Racism, and Intersectionality (First Edition)

Let's Talk About Race: A Guide for Handling Difficult Issues on Race, Racism, and Intersectionality (First Edition)
Author: Steve Burghardt
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516519903

A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity is a hands-on guide for teachers, students, and agency professionals seeking to respond skillfully and sensitively to the often daunting challenges of classrooms, as students demand both answers and accountability concerning issues of race, power, privilege, and oppression and the emotional responses they provoke. The guide includes suggestions to implement before entering the classroom, so that the necessary personal, community, and institutional infrastructure can support authentic, sustainable conversations. It discusses how educators can respond appropriately in the classroom to the hot-button issues of the day. There are also lessons for critical pedagogy and management that help educators reimagine classrooms and learn to create mutually supportive learning environments. Written by four experienced anti-racist educators and practitioners, the book takes a direct, compassionate approach designed to diminish dogma and fear. By examining how socially different people respond to the same difficult questions, A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity creates a rich set of options for readers to use in their own classrooms, agencies, and field placements.

Courageous Conversations About Race

Courageous Conversations About Race
Author: Glenn E. Singleton
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071847139

Deepen the dialogue to address racial disparities in your organization Schools, like all organizations, face a nearly insurmountable hurdle when addressing racial inequities—the inability to talk candidly about race. In this timely update, author Glenn Singleton enables you to break the silence and open an authentic dialogue that forges a path to progress for racial equity. The third edition offers new coverage of the structural inequities in schools and society that have been exposed by the pandemic as well as heightened public awareness of racial injustice. Courageous Conversations about Race allows you to deepen your personal understanding of race and its impact on all students. You will discover how to apply the strategy and protocol to Embrace the four agreements—stay engaged, speak your truth, experience discomfort and accept non-closure—to deepen interracial dialogue Build a foundation for advancing equity using the Six Conditions of Courageous Conversation Examine the role of race in your life using the Courageous Conversation Compass to understand and guide your actions Expand your capacity to lead others on the journey in addressing institutional racism disparities This guide empowers you with practical tools and insights to successfully challenge racist policies and practice in schools and beyond. It is your call to leadership—one that will impact student achievement and drive systemic transformation.

More Courageous Conversations About Race

More Courageous Conversations About Race
Author: Glenn E. Singleton
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2012-10-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452283559

Use courageous conversations to build racial equity in your schools and districts! Since the highly acclaimed Courageous Conversations About Race offered educators a framework and tools for promoting racial equity, many schools have implemented the Courageous Conversations Protocol. Now, author Glenn Singleton shares the challenges that have often led to random acts of equity and pockets of excellence rather than systemic transformation. In a book that′s rich with anecdote, Singleton celebrates the successes, outlines the difficulties, and provides specific strategies for moving Courageous Conversations from racial equity theory to practice at every level, from classroom to the school superintendent′s office. Voices From the Inside narratives, written by champions of racial equity, offer moving illustrations of personal, professional, and organizational transformations. Here′s the MORE in More Courageous Conversations About Race: Examines the knowing-doing gap and suggests ways to transform your passion for racial equity into a powerful purpose that can transform our nation′s schools and classrooms. Demonstrates the positive outcomes for students and their schools when educators have the will, the skill, and the knowledge to sustain courageous conversations about race. Shows how the social and political climate provides increasing challenges to ensuring that underserved students get the educational opportunities they need to succeed. Explicitly embraces other people of color in the drive for racial equity and illustrates how the Courageous Conversations Protocol can be applied to their circumstances. Offers specific advice for engaging leaders beyond the school house door—district staff, superintendents, school boards, and local community leaders—and underscores the importance of their contributions. If you are committed to exercising leadership on behalf of all students, and especially underserved students of color, More Courageous Conversations About Race provides insight and inspiration for achieving your racial equity purpose.

Never Forget who You are

Never Forget who You are
Author: Rodney L. Hurst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780578174549

"In [this book], Rodney L. Hurst Sr. and Rudy F. Jamison Jr. offer you two options, and they are both beneficially good. You will read two philosophies and two lived experiences in each chapter about blackness, racism, respect, and pride: one from a 50-year-old mind and eyes and the other from a 75- year-old mind and eyes. Both viewpoints will get you to the same place... [This book] is a cross-generational conversation between a baby boomer and a Generation Xer that wrestles with what it means to be Black in America. In an attempt to inspire increased attention to sustained racist ideas, Rodney and Rudy present historical contexts, preserved social orders, personal anecdotes, and possible solutions to race relations in America. Because America has created a caste system that categorizes humanity based on power and pigmentation, and refuses to address the severity of racism as an indelible issue, racism and identity development are structural and institutional impediments for Black folk. To be Black in America, and to not camouflage your blackness behind a veil of concession, is to perpetually resist the psychological contortion expected by a dominant White culture. The degree to which Blacks must deny who they are in White spaces may not be an issue for the dominant power structure, but if you're unapologetically Black, you know the struggle is real."--from jacket.

Humanity Over Comfort

Humanity Over Comfort
Author: Sharone Brinkley-Parker
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071847937

Increase your racial equity capacity for transformational change The years 2020 - 2021 will be remembered for COVID-19 and racial injustice. COVID illuminated long-standing structural inequities. Increased media focus on police brutality helped fuel a protest movement that underscored the urgency of the moment. In schools, non-profits, and various business sectors, conversations about race and institutional racism are becoming increasingly common. However, most of these conversations are performative and do little to disrupt the status quo. The authors of Humanity Over Comfort aim to move beyond the transactional response of using only conversations to respond to structural inequalities. Alternatively, the authors advance tools that promote transformational change that eliminates the access and opportunity gaps for Black and Brown individuals. Written to cultivate awareness that increases racial equity capacity, this book will help readers Understand historical context and the influence of racism in shaping reality Engage in reflections that connect learning to personal experience Understand the Conscious Anti-Racist Engendering Framework (CARE), which draws from adult learning theory to build community in organizations Leverage one’s span of control to implement practices that incrementally work to dismantle systems of oppressions Direct their increased capacity towards dismantling racially predictable policies and practices Transactional responses to racism perpetuate marginalizing narratives and outcomes and do little to support the humanity of a community, including White members. This book will guide readers towards transformational change to build a system that supports the restoration of our collective humanity.

A Parent’s Guide to Racism in the United States

A Parent’s Guide to Racism in the United States
Author: Axis
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496467841

From its foundation to the present day, the United States has been marred by racism. Learn how to discuss this hot-button issue compassionately. Features: Definitions of race-related terms such as racism, while privilege, and Black Lives Matter Concise summary of the history of the US Civil Rights Movement Biblical support for respecting people of all races Practical strategies for pursuing racial justice as a family Shame-free discussion questions for honest conversation

Speaking of Race

Speaking of Race
Author: Celeste Headlee
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0063098172

A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Fall Book In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support. A self-described “light-skinned Black Jew,” Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race—including having to defend or define her own—since childhood. In her career as a journalist for public media, she’s made it a priority to talk about race proactively. She’s discovered, however, that those exchanges have rarely been productive. While many people say they want to talk about race, the reality is, they want to talk about race with people who agree with them. The subject makes us uncomfortable; it’s often not considered polite or appropriate. To avoid these painful discussions, we stay in our bubbles, reinforcing our own sense of righteousness as well as our division. Yet we gain nothing by not engaging with those we disagree with; empathy does not develop in a vacuum and racism won’t just fade away. If we are to effect meaningful change as a society, Headlee argues, we have to be able to talk about what that change looks like without fear of losing friends and jobs, or being ostracized. In Speaking of Race, Headlee draws from her experiences as a journalist, and the latest research on bias, communication, and neuroscience to provide practical advice and insight for talking about race that will facilitate better conversations that can actually bring us closer together. This is the book for people who have tried to debate and educate and argue and got nowhere; it is the book for those who have stopped talking to a neighbor or dread Thanksgiving dinner. It is an essential and timely book for all of us.

Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All (First Edition)

Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All (First Edition)
Author: Eugene Ellis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1324053992

A guide to supporting our emergence from the tight grip of race discomfort. If we are to address the injustice of racism, we need to have the “race conversation.” All too often, however, attempts at this conversation are met with silence, denial, anger, or hate. This is largely because the construct of race resides not only in our minds, but principally in the body. In order to have productive conversations about race and racism, a paradigm shift is needed—one which will empower us to remain present and embodied, rather than constricted with fear, regardless of our racial identities. Here, psychotherapist Eugene Ellis explores what is needed for this bodily shift to occur as he unpacks the visceral experience of the race conversation. He offers a trauma-informed, neurophysiological approach that emphasizes resourcing, body awareness, mindfulness, and healing. Transforming Race Conversations is essential reading for therapy practitioners as well as anyone looking to engage more effectively in the ongoing dialogue around race.

A Parent's Guide to Racism in the United States

A Parent's Guide to Racism in the United States
Author: Axis
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496467825

From its foundation to the present day, the United States has been marred by racism. Learn how to discuss this hot-button issue compassionately. Features: Definitions of race-related terms such as racism, while privilege, and Black Lives Matter Concise summary of the history of the US Civil Rights Movement Biblical support for respecting people of all races Practical strategies for pursuing racial justice as a family Shame-free discussion questions for honest conversation