Recommended readings, resources, etc.

Reading

“‘But I didn’t mean it!’ Why it’s so hard to prioritize impacts over intents.” - Melanie Tannenbaum, Scientific American Blog,October 14, 2013

Alliance Building and Accountability, Shelly Tochluk and Cameron Levin, AWARE-LA 

“Everyday Bias”- Howard J. Ross

Middling to Fair - Blog about whiteness

Organizations 

The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond, a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation.

Critica, a community committed to making rational decisions about health and security.

AWARE-LA Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere-Los Angeles

Definitions

Race: A group of people socially defined by physical characteristics. Critical to understanding is that while races are socially defined by skin color, they have a group experience that is created by shared experience, history, language, and meaning.

Bias: A judgment or inclination in favor or against something. Bias can be conscious when were aware of them, or unconscious when they are outside of our awareness, intention, or control.

Stereotype: A judgment that is based on superficial understanding based on personal interpretation instead of intimate and direct knowedge.

Culture: 1) the shared assumptions socially constructed by a group; 2) the artifacts and products of a group.

Social construction: The complex and continuous process by which meaning is co-created by groups of people.