Creative Equity Toolkit

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What the Author of Me and White Supremacy Wants You to Know About Anti-Racism Work

Interview with the British author Layla F Saad about her 2020 bestseller and her viral Instagram 28-day journalling challenge #meandwhitesupremacy challenging white people to learn about their complicity in white supremacy.

'The act of journaling alongside it really requires you to look only at yourself and to take self responsibility for the ways that you have had racist thoughts, have racist beliefs, done racist things, even when you weren’t meaning to.'

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  • 10.3 minute
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  • Published: 2020
    Country: USA

  • Author: Suyin Haynes, Time Magazine

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When Calling Out Makes Sense

Article looking at calling in and calling out, the legitimacy of rage in the face of oppression and the role of power in call out culture. The article responds to an earlier viral article by Ahmad promoting call ins as an alternative to call outs.

'When we insist that all of these conversations must remain in the private sphere, we are insisting that accountability is always a private matter. The history of our movements very clearly shows the opposite is often the case.'

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  • 4 minute
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  • Published: 2017
    Country: USA

  • Author: Asam Ahmad

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When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity?

An article looking at the compensation paid to former slave owners by British taxpayers until 2015 - a sum equivalent to £300 billion.

'After the abolition of slavery, Britain paid millions in compensation – but every penny of it went to slave owners, and nothing to those they enslaved. We must stop overlooking the brutality of British history.'

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  • 22 minute
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  • Published: 2018
    Country: UK

  • Author: Kris Manjapra, The Guardian

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While the US debate heats up, why won’t the UK even talk about reparations for slavery?

A look at the reparations debate in Britain:

'...politicians dismiss the significance of the slave trade without so much of a wave of the hand, or repeat the tired inaccuracy that it all happened far too long ago to worry about now. This despite the claims of Brexit supporters that the Commonwealth might play a major part in our international trade strategy after we leave the European Union.'

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  • 5 minute
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  • Published: 2019
    Country: UK

  • Author: Kuba Shand-Baptiste, Independent

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White Fragility

The 2011 article in which Robin DiAngelo introduces her theory which became her best-selling book.

'White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.'

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  • 30 minute
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  • Published: 2011
    Country: USA

  • Author: Robin DiAngelo, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy

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White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness

Article on white people in the US becoming aware of their racial identity for the first time.

'For a long time, many white people assumed it was our due, as the majority, to encounter various racial others and marvel at the exotic things they ate, built or wore. Now we can go online and find people of color doing the gawking, offering jokes and anthropological scrutiny about white people’s underseasoning food, mistreating potato salad or eschewing washcloths.'

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  • 8 minute
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  • Published: 2018
    Country: USA

  • Author: Emily Bazelon, The New York Times