Race Talk Community of Practice
Race Talk Community of Practice
What is Race Talk?
Dr. Derald Wing Sue offers the following:
"Race talk is a dialogue or conversation that involves topics of race, racism, “whiteness” and White privilege. Race talk is generally filled with intense and powerful emotions, creates a threatening environment for participants, reveals major differences in worldviews or perspectives and often results in disastrous consequences such as a hardening of biased racial views. Unless instigated in some manner, the majority of people in interracial settings would prefer to avoid such topical discussions or to minimize and dilute their importance and meaning."
What is a Community of Practice?
"A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly ... A CoP can evolve naturally because of the members' common interest in a particular domain or area, or it can be created deliberately with the goal of gaining knowledge related to a specific field."
Books
- "Race Talk and the Conspriacy of Silence Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race" by Derald Wing Sue
- "The fire next time" by James Baldwin
- "Blindspot: hidden biases of good people" by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Videos
- "Color Blind or Color Brave" Ted Talk featuring Melody Hobson
- BBC News "One thing Americans find hard to talk about"
- BBC News "Two women, one big conversation"
- The New York Time "A Conversation With White People on Race" by Blair Foster and Michele Stephensen
Articles
- "UC San Diego to Host First-Ever Social Mobility Conference" by Christine Clark and Lily Chen
- "Why the Fight Against Racism has to Start With Owning It" by Nadira Hira
- "Code Switch: Cross-Racial Relationships" with Anna Sale, Chrishana White, Noel King, Shereen Marisol Meraji, Beverly Danial Tatum. Sarah Lorr
- "Teaching Ideas and Resources to Help Students Make Sense of the George Floyd Protests" by Natalie Proulx and Katherine Schulten
- "Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don't understand the protests? What you're seeing is people pushed to the edge" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar