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Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 2398	yes	Coursera

The Syllabus

Videos

Welcome to D-BIAS
Racial Justice Training: Past, Present and Future
Implicit Bias Clip One
Implicit Bias Clip Two
Implicit Bias Clip Three
Examples of Bias from a Personal Story
Performative vs. Intentional

Readings

The Essential Components
Who We Are
Who Are You?
Stay with it!
The Argument For Equity Rather Than Diversity
Two Commitments and Two Concepts, As You Get Started
The Stroop Effect
What is implicit bias and where does it come from?
Where Does Unconscious/Implicit Bias come from?
Colorblindness and Unshakeable Certainty
What is Systemic Bias and How We Can We Help Dismantle It?
Reflection Related to Chapter 1
Short primer on a performative act vs. an intentional act
Workshop 1: Narratives of Systemic Bias
Workshop 1: Questions for Consideration
Workshop 2: Narratives of Systemic Bias
Workshop 2: Questions for Consideration
Lexicon: “Othering” vs. “Breaking and Bridging”
Lexicon: "Racism" A Word In Many Forms
Lexicon: "Prejudice" vs. "Racism"
Lexicon: The Law behind Race "Equality" vs. "Equity" vs. "Inequity"
Lexicon: "Structural Inequity" vs. "Systemic Racism" (Designed in Law)
Mindful Language and Cultural Equity Tools
Optional Readings
SourceBook Optional Reading: Systemic Bias in the Criminal Justice System Is Not A Myth
SourceBook Optional Reading: My Mother Dreams for Her Son, and All Black Children by Hilton Als, New Yorker June 2020
Black Lives Matter: Opening a Second Front
EquityxDesign - Courses by Christine Ortiz
Optional Reading: The Issues With Implicit Bias Training
Optional Reading: UChicago's Resume Study
Optional Reading: The $ Cost of Systemic Racism in the U.S.
Optional video: Jeff Robinson Video on Reclaiming History
Optional Reading: Jeff Robinson's Podcasts
Societal and Individual Narratives
Narratives solving problems:
Naming as Narrative
Workshop 3: Diversity for Diversity’s Sake And Its Problem
An answer:

Practice Exercise

Identifying Implicit/Systemic Bias, Structural Racism, Individual Racism (ungraded)
Your Company, and a Statement of Support...

Videos

The Four Eras of Criminal Legal (in)justice U.S. History: An Overview
What is Criminal Justice Reform// Equity Reforms vs. Criminalizing
Narrative-shifting: "Tough On Crime" (ToC)
Law-in-History Era 1: Brooklyn As a Slave-Holding Capitol and Era 2 Segregation
Applying a Restorative Approach to the Issue

Readings

How To Use Design Thinking For Equity and Justice: Prototyping
Building and Sustaining Cultural Equity
"Tough on Crime" in history- The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Concept: Four Quadrants of American Tough On Crime (In)Justice History
Required reading: Structural Racism In Action and the Nixon Administration
Required reading: Scholars Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson
Required viewing: Brian Purnell on Modern-Day Jim Crow in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Tools you will use #1
Tools you will use #2
Tools you will use #3
Tools you will use #4
Implementing a Strategic Approach
Tools you will use #5
Workshop 4: The Instagram “White Out” Protest
Workshop 4: Questions for Consideration
Workshop 4: Two lawyers discuss the firing...
Overview of the Four Four Eras of Law-in-History
History: Brooklyn was a slave owning city
History: New York City's slave laws
History Era 2: The dominance of slavery and capitalism in the 19th century .
History: Post-1865 13th Amendment Jim Crow in New York
History: 20th Century NY Brooklyn Jim Crow
History:1970-2000 The Prison-Industrial Complex "The New Jim Crow"
History: The Prison Industrial Profit Complex and The War On Drugs
Start With the Difference Between Restorative v. Retributive Justice
Reflection on your institution
Lexicon and Concepts
Justice Design Tools
Optional Readings
Library Interlude: Garland's Penal Excess -- the excess of lynching
Library Interlude: Bryan Stevenson, Bruce Western
Library Interlude: Plessy v. Ferguson-- a summary
Library Interlude: COVID19; Prosecutorial Discretion; What Boards can Do

Practice Exercise

on The Four Eras of Legal History
Capitol Hill Riots and Whiteness: A Reflection and Answers
Quiz on Community Revitalization Project and Neighborhood Agency (ungraded)

Videos

Poetry Discussion - The Poetry of Structural Inequity
Anti-Racist Workshop Video
Post-Script Discussion about "Looting" vs. "Rioting" Hypothetical

Readings

Lexicon: Where Did the Word B.I.P.O.C. (vs. POC) Come From?
Lexicon: "BIPOC" //"POC" // "Naming and Politics"
"Naming" as Narrative- Your Own Response
Poetry in Action: A Way Into Our Study of: Looting or Rioting or Protesting?
Poetry in Action: "The Poetry of Structural Inequity and Voice"
Lexicon for: Looting or Rioting or Protesting?
Law Library Interlude: Bryan Stevenson: On The Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests
Lexicon to respond to: Looting or Rioting or Protesting?
1741 Foley Square Panic
Evolution of the Police Force in the USA
19th Century Draft Riots
The Burning of Tulsa, Black Wall Street
The Burning of Tulsa, Black Wall Street Continued
The Modern History of "Race Riots" The Kerner Commission of 1968
Review of Restorative vs. Retributive Approaches
Consider your Own Organization
Lexicon and Concepts
Two Tools: poetry and optimism