Wesleyan University - Designing and Building Institutional Anti-Racist Spaces 

Welcome to D-BIAS

Racial Justice Training: Past, Present and Future

Implicit Bias Clip One

Implicit Bias Clip Two

Implicit Bias Clip Three

Examples of Bias from a Personal Story

Performative vs. Intentional

The Essential Components

Who We Are

Who Are You?

Stay with it!

The Argument For Equity Rather Than Diversity

Two Commitments and Two Concepts, As You Get Started

The Stroop Effect

What is implicit bias and where does it come from?

Where Does Unconscious/Implicit Bias come from?

Colorblindness and Unshakeable Certainty

What is Systemic Bias and How We Can We Help Dismantle It?

Reflection Related to Chapter 1

Short primer on a performative act vs. an intentional act

Workshop 1: Narratives of Systemic Bias

Workshop 1: Questions for Consideration

Workshop 2: Narratives of Systemic Bias

Workshop 2: Questions for Consideration

Lexicon: ?Othering? vs. ?Breaking and Bridging?

Lexicon: "Racism" A Word In Many Forms

Lexicon: "Prejudice" vs. "Racism"

Lexicon: The Law behind Race "Equality" vs. "Equity" vs. "Inequity"

Lexicon: "Structural Inequity" vs. "Systemic Racism" (Designed in Law)

Mindful Language and Cultural Equity Tools

Optional Readings

SourceBook Optional Reading: Systemic Bias in the Criminal Justice System Is Not A Myth

SourceBook Optional Reading: My Mother Dreams for Her Son, and All Black Children by Hilton Als, New Yorker June 2020

Black Lives Matter: Opening a Second Front

EquityxDesign - Courses by Christine Ortiz

Optional Reading: The Issues With Implicit Bias Training

Optional Reading: UChicago's Resume Study

Optional Reading: The $ Cost of Systemic Racism in the U.S.

Optional video: Jeff Robinson Video on Reclaiming History

Optional Reading: Jeff Robinson's Podcasts

Societal and Individual Narratives

Narratives solving problems:

Naming as Narrative

Workshop 3: Diversity for Diversity?s Sake And Its Problem

An answer:

Identifying Implicit/Systemic Bias, Structural Racism, Individual Racism (ungraded)

Your Company, and a Statement of Support...

The Four Eras of Criminal Legal (in)justice U.S. History: An Overview

What is Criminal Justice Reform// Equity Reforms vs. Criminalizing

Narrative-shifting: "Tough On Crime" (ToC)

Law-in-History Era 1: Brooklyn As a Slave-Holding Capitol and Era 2 Segregation

Applying a Restorative Approach to the Issue

How To Use Design Thinking For Equity and Justice: Prototyping

Building and Sustaining Cultural Equity

"Tough on Crime" in history- The National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Concept: Four Quadrants of American Tough On Crime (In)Justice History

Required reading: Structural Racism In Action and the Nixon Administration

Required reading: Scholars Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson

Required viewing: Brian Purnell on Modern-Day Jim Crow in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Tools you will use #1

Tools you will use #2

Tools you will use #3

Tools you will use #4

Implementing a Strategic Approach

Tools you will use #5

Workshop 4: The Instagram ?White Out? Protest

Workshop 4: Questions for Consideration

Workshop 4: Two lawyers discuss the firing...

Overview of the Four Four Eras of Law-in-History

History: Brooklyn was a slave owning city

History: New York City's slave laws

History Era 2: The dominance of slavery and capitalism in the 19th century .

History: Post-1865 13th Amendment Jim Crow in New York

History: 20th Century NY Brooklyn Jim Crow

History:1970-2000 The Prison-Industrial Complex "The New Jim Crow"

History: The Prison Industrial Profit Complex and The War On Drugs

Start With the Difference Between Restorative v. Retributive Justice

Reflection on your institution

Lexicon and Concepts

Justice Design Tools

Optional Readings

Library Interlude: Garland's Penal Excess -- the excess of lynching

Library Interlude: Bryan Stevenson, Bruce Western

Library Interlude: Plessy v. Ferguson-- a summary

Library Interlude: COVID19; Prosecutorial Discretion; What Boards can Do

on The Four Eras of Legal History

Capitol Hill Riots and Whiteness: A Reflection and Answers

Quiz on Community Revitalization Project and Neighborhood Agency (ungraded)

Poetry Discussion - The Poetry of Structural Inequity

Anti-Racist Workshop Video

Post-Script Discussion about "Looting" vs. "Rioting" Hypothetical

Lexicon: Where Did the Word B.I.P.O.C. (vs. POC) Come From?

Lexicon: "BIPOC" //"POC" // "Naming and Politics"

"Naming" as Narrative- Your Own Response

Poetry in Action: A Way Into Our Study of: Looting or Rioting or Protesting?

Poetry in Action: "The Poetry of Structural Inequity and Voice"

Lexicon for: Looting or Rioting or Protesting?

Law Library Interlude: Bryan Stevenson: On The Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests

Lexicon to respond to: Looting or Rioting or Protesting?

1741 Foley Square Panic

Evolution of the Police Force in the USA

19th Century Draft Riots

The Burning of Tulsa, Black Wall Street

The Burning of Tulsa, Black Wall Street Continued

The Modern History of "Race Riots" The Kerner Commission of 1968

Review of Restorative vs. Retributive Approaches

Consider your Own Organization

Lexicon and Concepts

Two Tools: poetry and optimism

Create Your Plan: Video Dialogue: Ben and Jonathan Final Video

Build Your Own Lab: Video 2 Week 4, Ben and Jonathan

Eight Steps to Change

Step One: What is the Problem?

Step Two: What is the narrative supporting the problem at your institution?

Step Three: Create a Team

Step Four: Give the Problem a Historical Context

Step Five: Develop the final goal

Step Six: Developing the New Narrative

Step Seven: Post-Workshop Implementation Plan

Characteristics of a Strong Plan

A Cultural Equity Plan

Step Eight: Assessment and Sustainable Justice

Before your final reflection...

Reflection, Self-Assessment, and Thank You!