"Implicit Racial Bias Causes Black Boys to Be Disciplined at School More Than Whites, Federal Report Finds"
Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss reveals findings in a government report detailing the unequal treatment of black boys in school
Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss reveals findings in a government report detailing the unequal treatment of black boys in school
By Robin J. DiAngelo, College of Education, University of Washington.
The development of culturally responsive clinical skills is vital to the effectiveness of behavioral health services. According to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), cultural competence “refers to the ability to honor and respect the beliefs, languages, interpersonal styles, and behaviors of individuals and families receiving services, as well as staff members who are providing such services. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 59, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
Race is such an ingrained social construct that even blind people can ‘see’ it. To pretend it doesn’t exist to you erases the experiences of black people. By Zach Stafford, The Guardian.
Almost every American is a “nationalist” of one kind or another. So is almost every Russian, Chinese, or North Korean. Don’t get mad. We are not accusing you of any sort of bias, racism, or other unpleasant views. We are merely trying to emphasize, again, how overly simplistic some labels can be. By Merrill Perlman.
The ADL Center on Extremism (COE) is one of the world’s foremost authorities on extremism, terrorism, anti-Semitism and all forms of hate. For decades, COE’s staff of seasoned investigators, analysts and researchers have tracked extremist activity and hate in the U.S. and abroad – online and on the ground.
For well-intentioned white people doing anti-racist and social justice work, the first meaningful step is to recognize their fragility around racial issues—and build their emotional stamina. 'White Fragility' author Robin DiAngelo breaks it down. By Adrienne van der Valk, Anya Malley.
Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often
noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that
women are disadvantaged. By Peggy McIntosh.
Written by Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle, Sarah Tishkoff. In the wake of the sequencing of the human genome in the early 2000s, genome pioneers and social scientists alike called for an end to the use of race as a variable in genetic research. Unfortunately, by some measures, the use of race as a biological category has increased in the postgenomic age. by Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle, Sarah Tishkoff
This history special traces the development of racial, and racist, ideas, from the ancient world -- when "there was no notion of race," as historian Nell Irvin Painter puts it -- up to the founding of the United States as, fundamentally, a nation of and for white people (despite the "all men are created equal" language of the Declaration of Independence). Relying on the work of Painter, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram Kendi, and a recorded workshop presentation by the Racial Equity Institute.