Week 1 - History Through the Lens of Race | Faculty & Staff

Resources and Discussion Prompts鈥�

Welcome to CUPA-HR's听21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge听漏 brought to you by CEAS HR听for higher education leaders! The resources and questions below are designed to be spread out through the week as you build your racial equity habit.

Read and Watch
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An听Adam Ruins Everything听episode that quickly and humorously explains how redlining came to be.听
(6 minutes)

By Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project,听The New York Times听(August 14, 2019)

Michelle Alexander contextualizes the current state of racism/white supremacy in the United States as an inevitable outcome of a collective narrative steeped in denial.

By Ta-Nehisi Coates,听The Atlantic听(June 2014)

Higher Ed Perspective
American Council on Education

Alternate Resource:听Consider if you are unable to access one of the articles above.
Host Jeremy Hobson explores with Edward Baptist, author of听The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, how slavery established the United States as a world economic power.
(15 minutes)

For Live Discussion

Please join us every Friday through this challenge from 1-2 p.m. for a live discussion.听Join the meeting at听.听
If you鈥檙e unable to participate in the live discussion or would like to have additional discussion time, please visit the Pre-Recorded Town Hall Discussion section.听

How do racialized poverty and housing touch your faculty, staff, and students?
What programs exist at your institution to educate your college community about the history of race relations in the U.S.?
How can you promote these discussions in the current environment?
What would you like to see your leadership doing differently to address racial injustice on your campus and in your community? How can you help facilitate these changes/discussions?

Pre-Recorded听Town Hall Discussion (recorded August 2020)

The facilitators for this week's Town Hall discussion were:
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Barbara Abercrombie

Ph.D., Chief Human Capital Officer at University of North Texas System

Laurita Thomas

President of the American Research Universities - Human Resources Institute

Adam Pritchard

Ph.D., Senior Survey Researcher at CUPA-HR.

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