Humanity Over Comfort (eBook)

Increase your racial equity capacity for transformational changeThe years 2020 - 2021 will be remembered for COVID-19 and racial injustice. COVID illuminated long-standing structural inequities. Increased mediafocus onpolice brutality helped fuel a protest movement that underscored the urgency of the moment. In schools, non-profits, andvarious business sectors,conversations about race and institutional racism are becoming increasingly common. However, most of these conversationsare performative and do little to disrupt the status quo.The authors ofHumanity Over Comfortaim to move beyond thetransactional responseof using only conversations to respond to structural inequalities. Alternatively, the authors advance tools that promotetransformational change thateliminates the access andopportunity gaps for Black and Brownindividuals.Written to cultivate awareness that increases racial equity capacity, this book will help readers Understand historical context and the influence of racism in shaping reality Engage in reflections that connect learning to personal experience Understand theConscious Anti-Racist Engendering Framework(CARE), which draws from adult learning theory to build community in organizations Leverage one's span of control to implement practices that incrementally work to dismantle systems of oppressions Direct their increased capacity towards dismantling racially predictable policies and practicesTransactionalresponses to racism perpetuate marginalizing narratives and outcomes and dolittle to support the humanity of a community, including White members. This book will guide readers towards transformational change to build a system that supports the restoration of our collective humanity.