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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

Videos
  • Create Your Plan: Video Dialogue: Ben and Jonathan Final Video
  • Build Your Own Lab: Video 2 Week 4, Ben and Jonathan
Readings
  • Eight Steps to Change
  • Step One: What is the Problem?
  • Step Two: What is the narrative supporting the problem at your institution?
  • Step Three: Create a Team
  • Step Four: Give the Problem a Historical Context
  • Step Five: Develop the final goal
  • Step Six: Developing the New Narrative
  • Step Seven: Post-Workshop Implementation Plan
  • Characteristics of a Strong Plan
  • A Cultural Equity Plan
  • Step Eight: Assessment and Sustainable Justice
  • Before your final reflection...
  • Reflection, Self-Assessment, and Thank You!

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