The 21-Day Equity Challenge is a powerful opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of how inequity, systemic bias, and exclusion affect our lives and our community. Our goal is develop awareness, foster empathy, suggest ways to take action, and help launch what we hope will be a lifelong commitment to improving equity and inclusion in our community. The 21 Day Equity Challenge includes a weekly calendar that includes links to recommended articles, videos, podcasts, reflections and more. Each week, the Office of Equity and Inclusion will host "Impact Hours" where all members of the Holy Family University community can gather virtually to share, process, ask questions, and connect on the previous week's recommended resources.
To help set the stage, let’s look at a few common terms and develop a mutual understanding of diversity, inclusion, and equity:
Diversity – Welcoming differences of race and ethnicity, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, language, culture, national origin, religious commitment, age, (dis)ability status, and political perspective.
Equity – A commitment to fair and impartial opportunities for all, often through actively challenging and responding to bias, harassment, and discrimination.
Inclusion – A commitment to ensuring that differences are welcomed, every person feels a sense of belonging, and everyone's voice is valued and heard.
Included in the Challenge are recommended books for reading. The Office of Equity & Inclusion asks you to consider supporting women-owned, minority-owned, local indepedent bookstores for your purchases.
21 Day Calendar:
Day 1:
Read: Cognitive Biases: What They Are and How They Affect You
Watch: Let's Talk Bias
Test: Project Implicit's Hidden Bias Tests
Day 2:
Read: Double Standards: What They Are and How to Respond to Them
Watch: Microassaults, Microinsults, and Microinvalidations
Other: Microaggressions in the Classroom
Day 3:
Read: Juan Vidal: Decolonize Your Bookshelf
Watch: Just belonging: finding the courage to interrupt bias
Other: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
Day 4:
Read: A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
Watch: The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes
Other: Ten Lessons for Talking About Race, Racism, and Racial Justice
Day 5:
Read: 20 years later, Beverly Daniel Tatum asks again: 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?'
Watch: Explained | Racial Wealth Gap
Other: Mapping Inequality: Redlining
Day 6:
Read: Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Watch: What is Privilege?
Other: How to Combat Colorism in the Classroom with Ms. Stephanie Gates
Day 7:
Read: The wealth gap: How the education world fails to fully measure students’ economic disadvantage
Watch: On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion | Anthony Jack | TEDxCambridge
Other: Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage in a Divided World by Prof. Bob Pease
Day 8:
Read: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Watch: Let's get to the root of racial injustice | Megan Ming Francis
Other: How to support people from different cultural backgrounds
Day 9:
Read: What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo
Watch: Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Other: The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
Day 10:
Read: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
Watch: Understanding My Privilege | Sue Borrego
Other: A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Day 11:
Read: Toolkit for Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education
Watch: Unequal Opportunity Race
Other: Listen to '1619,' a Podcast From The New York Times
Day 12:
Read: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Watch: : An Interview With Bryan Stevenson on Institutional Racism and Changing the Narrative
Other: Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism
Day 13:
Read: White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White by Daniel Hill & Brenda Salter McNeil
Watch: "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion": Peggy McIntosh
Other: An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Day 14:
Read: Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Watch: How America Created Its Shameful Wealth Gap | Robert Reich
Other: Wealth Inequality in America
Day 15:
Read: Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
Watch: A Look At Income Inequality In The United States | TIME
Other: Your Unconscious Bias Trainings & Systemic Racism
Day 16:
Read: Toolkit for Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education
Watch: How to Go Beyond Diversity and Inclusion to Community & Belonging | E'Ula Green
Other: How to Begin Talking About Race in the Workplace
Day 17:
Read: Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now
by Brenda Salter McNeil
Watch: Eliminating Microaggressions: The Next Level of Inclusion | Tiffany Alvoid
Other: This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell
Day 18:
Read: Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Watch: Unconscious bias: Stereotypical hiring practices. | Gail Tolstoi-Miller
Other: “I Don’t See Color”: Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege by Bettina Bergo & Tracey Nicholls
Day 19:
Read: Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele
Watch: Laverne Cox Talks about Intersectionality at Harvard
Other: 9 Phrases Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead of Getting Defensive
Day 20:
Read: Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools by Glenn E. Singleton
Watch: ‘Intergroup anxiety’: Can you try too hard to be fair?
Other: Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education by Ozlem Sensoy & Robin DiAngelo
Day 21: Apply what you have learned and live out equity!
Practical diversity: taking it from theory to practice
