Creative Equity Toolkit

The Creative Equity Toolkit has links to hundreds of practical resources, inspiring case studies and important research on increasing diversity in the arts.

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Toolkit

The Anti-racism Toolkit

Toolkit to address institutional racism, using the University of Leeds as a case study.

'The toolkit is structured around the process of constructing an anti-racist action plan for your institution.'

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  • 60+ minute
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  • Published: 2002
    Country: UK

  • Author: Laura Turney, Ian Law, Deborah Phillips, Centre for Ethnicity & Racism Studie

Glossary

The Anti-Racist Glossary

Glossary from a Scotland-based collective with definitions based on literature and also experiences.

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  • Author: The Anti-Racist Educator

Article

The arts were supposed to champion diversity. What went wrong?

Nwonka argues that a 'culture of schemes' dominates diversity policy in UK arts that prioritises potential financial gains for arts organisations over social equity.

'First, it employs strategic language to conceal the pathological inequality and exclusionary labour processes at the sector’s heart. Second, through narratives like “diversity is good for business”, all political meaning is extracted from diversity, while redirecting the burden of change on to ethnic minorities themselves.'

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  • 2 minute
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  • Published: 2019
    Country: UK

  • Author: Clive Nwonka, The Guardian

Toolkit

The Black Woman’s Guide to Philanthropy

An online guide designed to celebrate “Black women’s philanthropy,” and support the collective giving of Black women. Contextualises the American philanthropic context, offers definitions, shares tips for giving and other resources, outlines relevant issues and impact, and highlights inspirational leaders.

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  • 20 minute
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  • Published: 2019
    Country: USA

  • Author: Jocelyn Harmon and Angela Dern, BlackHer

Article

The case for ‘inclusion riders’ in creative industries

Analysis of the legal implications in Australia for including inclusion riders.

'But the question essentially boils down to this: is the measure targeted at increasing opportunities for a disadvantaged group, and is it a reasonable and/or appropriate way of achieving this?... inclusion riders are likely to meet this test and qualify as a special measure under all four laws. The groups targeted by inclusion riders are undoubtedly disadvantaged in the film industry.'

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  • 7 minute
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  • Published: 2019
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Liam Elphik, The Conversation

Article

The Case for Reparations

Ground-breaking article from the US in which Coates argues for reparations to be paid to the African American community for legalised discrimination and the systemic extraction of wealth from them, which he argues continued beyond the emancipation of slaves in 1865. He uses the example of housing policy to demonstrate the ways in which African Americans were denied access to wealth and resources.

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  • 60+ minute
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  • Published: 2014
    Country: USA

  • Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic