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Index

01 RACE MYTHOLOGY

02 THE RAMIFICATIONS OF RACE MYTHOLOGY + IDOLATRY

03 RETHINKING THE CONSTRUCTS OF RACE + RACISM

04 BIAS 101

05 CHILDREN, RACE + BIAS

06 JESUS, INJUSTICE + COMPLICIT SILENCE

07 DERACIALIZATION

01

RACE MYTHOLOGY

Vox | The Myth Of Race, Debunked In 3 Minutes

Excerpt: When you look at the history and origins of this idea, you start to see it for what it really is, which is the manifestation of power.
Link: The Myth Of Race (BBC)
Length: 7 minutes and 1 second.
Race As A Social Construct
Excerpt: …White is the club that everybody wants to get into. The velvet rope is right outside of whiteness, and everything else we're trying to get…Race is something different and race is determined by power dynamics. That's why, when you ask a White person, what do you love about being White…It’s really tough to say what you love about being White, unless you’re talking about the things you get that people who aren’t White don’t get.
Link: Race as a Social Construct
Length: 4 minutes and 41 seconds.
The Social Construction Of Race
Excerpt: It isn't stable over time. We can't simply talk about gaps in wages between Whites and Blacks, or gaps in test scores between Whites and Blacks as if those are two separate, mutually exclusive groups of people.
Link: The Social Construction Of Race
Length: 6 minutes and 21 seconds.
Is Race Real?
Excerpt: Everybody has been wrong about race, including me.
Link: Is Race Real?
Length: 26 minutes and 46 seconds.
Excerpt: Much like gender, race is a socially constructed category. In this case, it’s used to categorize people who share biological traits that a society thinks are important. So, you might be wondering: how can race be both a social construct and something based on biology? Well, the key part of that definition of race is the last part: what a society thinks is important. Sure, skin color varies widely across regions of the world. But so does eye color, and we don’t consider people with blue eyes a different race than people with brown eyes…
Link: Race & Ethnicity: Crash Course Sociology #34
Length: 10 minutes and 58 seconds.
Excerpt: …If I take your race away—and there you are, all strung out—and all you got is your little self, and what is that? What are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? Still smart? You still like yourself? If you can only be tall, because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem...
Link: Toni Morrison's Powerful Words On Racism
Length: 2 minutes and 17 seconds.
Twins Show Race Is A Social Construct
Excerpt: When they see us together, they don’t believe that we’re twins.
Link: Twins Show Race Is A Social Construct
Length: 1 minute and 43 seconds.
Twin Teens: One Black, One White, Celebrate Their Differences
Excerpt: They say, ‘How did it happen? We don’t believe you.’
Link: Twin Teens: One Black, One White, Celebrate Their Differences
Length: 2 minutes and 9 seconds.

02

THE RAMIFICATIONS OF RACE MYTHOLOGY + RACE IDOLATRY

TED | How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline At A Time

Link: Color Blind Or Color Brave?
Length: 14 minutes and 15 seconds.
Link: Let's Talk About Race
Length: 10 minutes and 37 seconds.
The Problem With Race-Based Medicine
Link: The Problem With Race-Based Medicine
Length: 14 minutes and 36 seconds.
How Racism Makes Us Sick
Link: How Racism Makes Us Sick
Length: 17 minutes and 27 seconds.
Understanding My Privilege
Link: Understanding My Privilege
Length: 12 minutes and 48 seconds.
Race & Privilege: A Social Experiment
Link: Race & Privilege: A Social Experiment
Length: 7 minutes and 27 seconds.
What Is Privilege?
Link: What Is privilege?
Length: 9 minutes and 56 seconds.
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
Link: How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
Length: 18 minutes and 26 seconds.

03

RETHINKING THE CONSTRUCTCS OF RACE + RACISM

Enough With Race Already, It's Time For A NEW Social Construct

TED | Our society has gotten so bogged down by the construct of race that we have steered away from love and acceptance. Except race only seems to exist so that racism has space to breathe so what if we put race out of its misery so that together, we can heal and unite the human collective. The longer we talk about each other through the lens of race, the longer fear, judgment, hatred will continue taking us back into a divisive world vs. the world of unity and love. We are not here to go backward, we are here to break the cycles of hatred. All it takes is our willingness to be aware, know, and accept that love is the bridge that connects us.

Glodean Champion is a Keynote Speaker, Author of the novel, Salmon Croquettes, and a Transformational Leader who specializes in process improvement, leadership development, team building, and operationalizing diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). She is exceptionally engaging, funny and passionate, and pulls from her upbringing and the influence of her mother to create stories that connect with her audience. Her approach to delicate subjects is with honesty, authenticity, and vulnerability and she is a master at challenging and captivating audiences of all kinds in a way that forces them to take pause and listen from the heart.

RETHINKING THE CONSTRUCTCS OF RACE + RACISM

My Descent Into America's Neo-Nazi Movement & How I Got Out

TED | At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did he ultimately get out? In this courageous talk, Christian shares a surprising and counterintuitive solution to hate in all forms. After leaving the white-supremacist skinhead movement that he helped build in the 1980s and 90s, Christian Picciolini co-founded Life After Hate, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people disengage from violent extremism. His memoir, White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out (Hachette), which details his involvement, and eventual disengagement, from the early American white nationalist movement, will be published on December 26, 2017. Christian lives in Chicago.

04

BIAS

Vernā Myers: How To Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them

TED | Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.

Link: Divided States Of Women: The Real Problem With Unconscious Bias
Length: 1 minute.

BIAS

Dispelling Interracial Myths | Things People Don't Want To Talk About

The Cole Life | We are tackling a very sensitive, challenging conversation that we feel is necessary to talk about. Being in an interethnic relationship comes with many difficult conversations and, unfortunately, we don't always experience other couples handling it in a healthy way...or avoiding it altogether.

05

CHILDREN, RACE + BIAS

Reelblack One | The Doll Test And Desegregation

Link: Landmark Cases: Brown v Board Doll Test
Length: 2 minutes and 54 seconds.
Link: The Doll Test (Italy)
Length: 2 minutes and 44 seconds.
Link: Inside the AC360 Doll Study
Length: 5 minutes and 27 seconds.
Link: What I Am Learning From My White Grandchildren—Truths About Race
Length: 17 minutes and 27 seconds.

06

JESUS, INJUSTICE + COMPLICIT SILENCE

Equipping The Next Generation To Embrace Gospel Diversity

The Gospel Coalition | This message from Jackie Hill Perry was delivered at the MLK50 Conference in Memphis, TN on April 4, 2018.