Designing and Building Institutional Anti-Racist Spaces

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Designing and Building Institutional Anti-Racist Spaces

Instructor: Jonathan Andrew Perez

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Beginner level

No prior experience required

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

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The course final assignment will allow students to become designers of cultural equity, and build their own workshops at their own institutions.

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Designing and Building Institutional Antiracist Spaces (D-BIAS) is a course whose mission is to teach tenets of equity, anti-racism, and cultural justice and how to apply these ideas to achieve social change.

The course is aimed at educators and administrators in educational spaces, lawyers and advocates in spaces that touch civil rights, equity, and whose Institutional mission it is to achieve greater cultural equity. The course involves creative approaches to social justice, racial justice, and advocacy while remaining open to anyone from any background who shares the same vision of the world, as social change entrepreneurs.

Welcome to Wesleyan University and Justice Equity Design's course: Designing & Building Institutional Antiracist Spaces (D-BIAS)! You are here because you are interested in more than the usual one-and-done diversity workshops. You understand, or at least suspect, that to make real change in society, we must look at the deeper roots of inequity. By taking this course, you will learn a set of tools and a framework that you can adapt to your own institution and set change in motion. You will need a notebook (online or paper and pen) so that you can record your thoughts and answer questions as you work through the course. At the end you will be ready to train others to use this methodology either on your own or in further partnership with JED. The work we are about to undertake is hard work, but ultimately, it is the most rewarding work. The world will be a better place for your contribution.

What's included

7 videos38 readings2 assignments

7 videos Total 31 minutes

Welcome to D-BIAS 3 minutes
Racial Justice Training: Past, Present and Future 8 minutes
Implicit Bias Clip One 3 minutes
Implicit Bias Clip Two 4 minutes
Implicit Bias Clip Three 6 minutes
Examples of Bias from a Personal Story 5 minutes
Performative vs. Intentional 3 minutes

38 readings Total 249 minutes

The Essential Components 5 minutes
Who We Are 10 minutes
Who Are You? 4 minutes
Stay with it! 10 minutes
The Argument For Equity Rather Than Diversity 10 minutes
Two Commitments and Two Concepts, As You Get Started 1 minute
The Stroop Effect 10 minutes
What is implicit bias and where does it come from? 10 minutes
Where Does Unconscious/Implicit Bias come from? 10 minutes
Colorblindness and Unshakeable Certainty 0 minutes
What is Systemic Bias and How We Can We Help Dismantle It? 3 minutes
Reflection Related to Chapter 1 15 minutes
Short primer on a performative act vs. an intentional act 15 minutes
Workshop 1: Narratives of Systemic Bias 20 minutes
Workshop 1: Questions for Consideration 10 minutes
Workshop 2: Narratives of Systemic Bias 10 minutes
Workshop 2: Questions for Consideration 10 minutes
Lexicon: “Othering” vs. “Breaking and Bridging” 10 minutes
Lexicon: "Racism" A Word In Many Forms 5 minutes
Lexicon: "Prejudice" vs. "Racism" 5 minutes
Lexicon: The Law behind Race "Equality" vs. "Equity" vs. "Inequity" 10 minutes
Lexicon: "Structural Inequity" vs. "Systemic Racism" (Designed in Law) 5 minutes
Mindful Language and Cultural Equity Tools 10 minutes
Optional Readings 10 minutes
SourceBook Optional Reading: Systemic Bias in the Criminal Justice System Is Not A Myth 0 minutes
SourceBook Optional Reading: My Mother Dreams for Her Son, and All Black Children by Hilton Als, New Yorker June 2020 0 minutes
Black Lives Matter: Opening a Second Front 10 minutes
EquityxDesign - Courses by Christine Ortiz 0 minutes
Optional Reading: The Issues With Implicit Bias Training 0 minutes
Optional Reading: UChicago's Resume Study 0 minutes
Optional Reading: The $ Cost of Systemic Racism in the U.S. 0 minutes
Optional video: Jeff Robinson Video on Reclaiming History 0 minutes
Optional Reading: Jeff Robinson's Podcasts 0 minutes
Societal and Individual Narratives 5 minutes
Narratives solving problems: 1 minute
Naming as Narrative 5 minutes
Workshop 3: Diversity for Diversity’s Sake And Its Problem 10 minutes
An answer: 10 minutes

2 assignments Total 60 minutes

Identifying Implicit/Systemic Bias, Structural Racism, Individual Racism (ungraded) 30 minutes
Your Company, and a Statement of Support... 30 minutes

We have taught or refreshed your knowledge of a series of skills and concepts in the chapters so far. Now we are going to help you apply them.

What's included

5 videos33 readings3 assignments1 peer review2 discussion prompts

5 videos Total 39 minutes

The Four Eras of Criminal Legal (in)justice U.S. History: An Overview 5 minutes
What is Criminal Justice Reform// Equity Reforms vs. Criminalizing 8 minutes
Narrative-shifting: "Tough On Crime" (ToC) 9 minutes
Law-in-History Era 1: Brooklyn As a Slave-Holding Capitol and Era 2 Segregation 8 minutes
Applying a Restorative Approach to the Issue 8 minutes

33 readings Total 209 minutes

How To Use Design Thinking For Equity and Justice: Prototyping 10 minutes
Building and Sustaining Cultural Equity 10 minutes
"Tough on Crime" in history- The National Memorial for Peace and Justice 10 minutes
Concept: Four Quadrants of American Tough On Crime (In)Justice History 6 minutes
Required reading: Structural Racism In Action and the Nixon Administration 13 minutes
Required reading: Scholars Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson 15 minutes
Required viewing: Brian Purnell on Modern-Day Jim Crow in Brooklyn, N.Y. 27 minutes
Tools you will use #1 0 minutes
Tools you will use #2 2 minutes
Tools you will use #3 4 minutes
Tools you will use #4 5 minutes
Implementing a Strategic Approach 3 minutes
Tools you will use #5 10 minutes
Workshop 4: The Instagram “White Out” Protest 10 minutes
Workshop 4: Questions for Consideration 10 minutes
Workshop 4: Two lawyers discuss the firing... 10 minutes
Overview of the Four Four Eras of Law-in-History 1 minute
History: Brooklyn was a slave owning city 0 minutes
History: New York City's slave laws 5 minutes
History Era 2: The dominance of slavery and capitalism in the 19th century . 10 minutes
History: Post-1865 13th Amendment Jim Crow in New York 5 minutes
History: 20th Century NY Brooklyn Jim Crow 5 minutes
History:1970-2000 The Prison-Industrial Complex "The New Jim Crow" 5 minutes
History: The Prison Industrial Profit Complex and The War On Drugs 4 minutes
Start With the Difference Between Restorative v. Retributive Justice 2 minutes
Reflection on your institution 10 minutes
Lexicon and Concepts 3 minutes
Justice Design Tools 4 minutes
Optional Readings 10 minutes
Library Interlude: Garland's Penal Excess -- the excess of lynching 0 minutes
Library Interlude: Bryan Stevenson, Bruce Western 0 minutes
Library Interlude: Plessy v. Ferguson-- a summary 0 minutes
Library Interlude: COVID19; Prosecutorial Discretion; What Boards can Do 0 minutes

3 assignments Total 90 minutes

on The Four Eras of Legal History 30 minutes
Capitol Hill Riots and Whiteness: A Reflection and Answers 30 minutes
Quiz on Community Revitalization Project and Neighborhood Agency (ungraded) 30 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

First Major Class Project -- Peer-Graded 60 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 30 minutes

Discussion Prompt From Brian Purnell 20 minutes
The Untaught History of America. Your thoughts 10 minutes

In the following chapters you'll learn some more techniques and read some more relevant history. We'll show you how poetry can be a powerful tool in this work and end with another peer assessed project.

What's included

3 videos18 readings1 peer review2 discussion prompts

3 videos Total 17 minutes

Poetry Discussion - The Poetry of Structural Inequity 5 minutes
Anti-Racist Workshop Video 6 minutes
Post-Script Discussion about "Looting" vs. "Rioting" Hypothetical 6 minutes

18 readings Total 181 minutes

Lexicon: Where Did the Word B.I.P.O.C. (vs. POC) Come From? 12 minutes
Lexicon: "BIPOC" //"POC" // "Naming and Politics" 6 minutes
"Naming" as Narrative- Your Own Response 2 minutes
Poetry in Action: A Way Into Our Study of: Looting or Rioting or Protesting? 60 minutes
Poetry in Action: "The Poetry of Structural Inequity and Voice" 20 minutes
Lexicon for: Looting or Rioting or Protesting? 3 minutes
Law Library Interlude: Bryan Stevenson: On The Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests 15 minutes
Lexicon to respond to: Looting or Rioting or Protesting? 4 minutes
1741 Foley Square Panic 2 minutes
Evolution of the Police Force in the USA 7 minutes
19th Century Draft Riots 12 minutes
The Burning of Tulsa, Black Wall Street 10 minutes
The Burning of Tulsa, Black Wall Street Continued 5 minutes
The Modern History of "Race Riots" The Kerner Commission of 1968 7 minutes
Review of Restorative vs. Retributive Approaches 2 minutes
Consider your Own Organization 10 minutes
Lexicon and Concepts 2 minutes
Two Tools: poetry and optimism 2 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Looting or Rioting or Protesting? Second Major Assignment 60 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 31 minutes

Your Response To "Hands up Don't Shoot" 20 minutes
Disruption and frustration! 11 minutes

You've learned facts, concepts, vocabulary and tools that will allow you to look at your own institution an analyze both what needs to change, and how to change it. We'll walk you through how to do it.

What's included

2 videos13 readings

2 videos Total 9 minutes

Create Your Plan: Video Dialogue: Ben and Jonathan Final Video 5 minutes
Build Your Own Lab: Video 2 Week 4, Ben and Jonathan 4 minutes

13 readings Total 199 minutes

Eight Steps to Change 30 minutes
Step One: What is the Problem? 60 minutes
Step Two: What is the narrative supporting the problem at your institution? 20 minutes
Step Three: Create a Team 30 minutes
Step Four: Give the Problem a Historical Context 10 minutes
Step Five: Develop the final goal 0 minutes
Step Six: Developing the New Narrative 0 minutes
Step Seven: Post-Workshop Implementation Plan 5 minutes
Characteristics of a Strong Plan 10 minutes
A Cultural Equity Plan 10 minutes
Step Eight: Assessment and Sustainable Justice 4 minutes
Before your final reflection... 10 minutes
Reflection, Self-Assessment, and Thank You! 10 minutes

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