DEI Toolkit: Systemic Racism

How do laws, policies and practices in sectors like housing, criminal justice and employment impact racial and ethnic minorities?

Use these tools and resources to help build a diversity, equity and inclusion learning plan for your organization.

Overview

Videos

• What is Systemic Racism?

Articles

• Systematic Inequality and Economic Opportunity
• Race and Racial Identity Are Social Constructs

Websites

• Equal Justice Initiative: Racial Justice

Privilege

Videos

• What is Privilege
• Starting Line
• Your Privilege is Showing

Books

• “White Fragility” by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander
• “White Fragility” by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• “When Affirmative Action Was White” by Ira Katznelson

Housing

Videos

• Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History
• Race, the House We Live In

Articles

• The Racist Roots of Single-Family Zoning

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice

Articles

• There’s racial bias in our police systems. Here’s the overwhelming proof.
• Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system.

Code Switching and Cultural Appropriation

Videos

• The Cost of Code Switching
• What’s In a Name: Interview of Dr. Neal Lester

Rural America

Articles

• A new generation challenges the heartland

Racial Identity

Videos

• Unpacking My Baggage: Re-framing Racial Identity | Abbi Van Hook | TEDxNorthCentralCollege
• “How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them” TED Talk by Verna Myers

Articles

• What is the Model Minority Myth?
• Model Minority’ Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks

Anti-Racism

Videos

• The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist
• Povi-tamu Bryant and Krystal Torres-Covarrubias on Strengthening Your Anti-Racist Practice

Brain Health

Articles

• Addressing Mental Health in the Black Community

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