LEAD and Be an Anti-Racist

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There are 4 types of racism and they often work in tandem to reinforce racist ideas, behaviors, actions, and policies.

Types of Racism:

Individual Racism
Interpersonal Racism
Institutional Racism
Systemic or Structural Racism

Individual Racism

Individual racism is the beliefs, attitudes, and actions of individuals that support or perpetuate racism in conscious and unconscious ways.

Interpersonal Racism

Interpersonal racism occurs between individuals. These are public expressions of racism, often involving slurs, biases, or hateful words or actions.

Institutional Racism

Institutional racism occurs in an organization. These are discriminatory treatments, unfair policies, or biased practices based on race that result in inequitable outcomes for Whites over people of color and extend considerably beyond prejudice. These institutional policies often never mention any racial group, but its impact creates advantages for some and disadvantages for others.

Systemic or Structural Racism

Systemic racism is the overarching system of racial bias across institutions and society. These systems give privileges to white people resulting in disadvantages to people of color.

Becoming an Antiracist

Being antiracist results from a conscious decision to make frequent, consistent, equitable choices daily. In the absence of making antiracist choices, we (un)consciously uphold aspects of White supremacy and unequal institutions and society.

Source: https://www.antiracismkit.com.au/self

9 Important Elements of Antiracist Education

Source: Infographic © NMAAHC. Data source: “ Multicultural Education vs Anti-Racist Education: The Debate in Canada,” Social Education 58(6), 1994, pp. 354-358. National Council for the Social Studies.

Must Read Books on Anti-Racism

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi explores how racism intersects with class, culture, biology, and geography, and how those intersections affect how we see the world. Kendi frames the book as an autobiography, identifying and examining the devastating consequences of racism so that we can oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. To be an anti-racist, one must support anti-racist policy through actions or by expressing anti-racist ideas.

Becoming a White Antiracist will be useful to anyone trying to create conversations around race, teach about white supremacy, arrange staff and development workshops on racism, and help colleagues explore how to create an antiracist culture or environment. This work happens in schools, colleges and universities, and we suspect many readers will be located in K-12 and higher education.

Author Layla F. Saad wrote Me and White Supremacy to encourage people who hold white privilege to examine their (often unconscious) racist thoughts and behaviors through a unique, 28-day reflection process complete with journaling prompts. This guided journal, which includes the book’s original weekly prompts and lots of space for note-taking and free-writing, is the perfect place to beg in your anti-racist journey.

Whitenessing Whiteness consider what it means to be White, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations.

How to Teach Kids about Racism was created to be suitable for children under the age of 5 up to young 18-year-olds, has specific sections where the reader can find the lessons fit for their children’s age. The contents found in this book are primarily instructions and analogies that you can use to initiate and engage the conversation with your children.