Tools & Resources
Our toolkit aimed to cultivate community conversations on race in the pursuit of mutual liberation.
"The history of race in America encompasses questions of freedom, justice, equality, and citizenship. Explore topics including the Reconstruction era, the once-influential theories of eugenics, the modern Civil Rights Movement, and current struggles over racial equity." - facinghistory.org
"Visualizing the hidden histories of race and privilege in the urban landscape." - mappingprejudice.org
"Tools and resources for school staff and other adults trained to facilitate conferences and circles to repair harm in educational settings and designed to assess readiness, implementation and outcomes for school-based restorative discipline models." - MN Department of Education
Assessing Your Organization's Readiness and Capacity to Move a Racial Justice Agenda - racialequitytools.org
"A tool for predominately white organizations and multi-racial organizations of white people and people of color." - racialequitytools.org
From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001
"Inside or outside the criminal justice system, innovative uses of restorative justice practices are changing our communities. They are putting the victim centrally in our thoughts and policy and bringing the offender face to face with the consequences of their crime." - Restorative Justice Council
Unpacking the Mainstream Mediation Model by Elli Nagai-Rothe for mediate.com, 2010
Including and Unleashing Everyone - liberatingstructures.com
"Educators play a crucial role in helping students talk openly about the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of social inequality and discrimination. Learning how to communicate about such topics as white privilege, police violence, economic inequality and mass incarceration requires practice, and facilitating critical conversations with students demands courage and skill.
This guide offers classroom-ready strategies you can use to plan discussions and to facilitate these conversations with your students." - tolerance.org
by Kathy Obear, Ed.D. for Western Washington University
"The frameworks summarized here describe people who are situated in many different ways, but they do not describe all of the possibilities. We have listed a few different frameworks that focus on the experiences of people of color, biracial people and white people in the U.S. We think they can be useful tools for self reflection and for building empathy and understanding of people who are situated differently from ourselves." - racialequitytools.org
By Maggie Potapchuk, Sally Leiderman, Donna Bivens, and Barbara Major for MP Associates, Inc. and the Center for Assessment and Policy Development, 2005
"Tracing the origins and evolution of the restorative justice movement, this paper explores its relationship with the related frameworks of conflict transformation and trauma healing, within the broader field of peacebuilding. Over the last three decades, the conceptual framework and practices of restorative justice have received wide currency internationally. For example, restorative justice was used to help provide a conceptual framework for the mission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa as well as for the Gacaca Tribunals in postwar Rwanda. Exploring some of the learnings from the implementation of this framework, the paper draws attention to a much-needed conversation between the diverse yet related fields of conflict transformation, trauma healing and restorative justice. Such a dialogue will not only facilitate a cross-fertilization of ideas, it will also strengthen peacebuilding practice. In this context, the paper explores some of the critical issues that lie ahead at this intersection as well as the areas of confluence and divergence between the three fields." - By Howard Zehr for Peace Prints, 2008
"These resources focused on racial equity include journal entries, books, magazines, videos and more. Using the filters [on the site], you can view the resources based on areas of focus, related issues and/or topics." - W.K. Kellogg Foundation
"The model of Recovery from White Conditioning was developed in 2015 as a derivative work, based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, with guidance from BIPOC consultants. It was designed to support and challenge white people to accept our responsibility for dismantling white supremacy, as it lives in us and around us." - recoveryfromwhiteconditioning.com
"A path for developing a healthy Eauropean American identity, contributing to the end of structural racism, and creating space for other cultural ways of knowing." - healingrootscommunity.com
"In all of our struggles, it is important to know who came before us; to see the footsteps that tread the paths we travel. White supremacy and patriarchy in media and mainstream culture often invisibilizes the long history of resistance to injustice and oppression, including resistance that takes form at the intersection of white privilege and gendered oppression. So many we meet in this work feel they are working in isolation. Yet we are not alone. There are so many individuals, working from every intersection of identity, who commit their lives to fighting for racial, gender, economic, (dis)ability and other forms of social justice." - conspireforchange.org
"On Dec 10th (2010), Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, the author of UC Davis’ campus community book, “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” (1997), spoke at the Mondavi Center." - ATChang for UC Davis TA Consultants, 2011
Adapted from Glenn E. Singleton & Curtis Linton, Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools. 2006. pp. 58-65. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Developed by Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal
By Charles Feltman for Insight Coaching, 2001
"Nobody is perfect, but when people screw up and do oppressive things, we need to let them know what they did was wrong. In social justice circles, we often do something called “calling out,” which usually includes someone publicly pointing out that another person is being oppressive...The primary difference between calling in and calling out is that calling in is done with a little more compassion and patience." - By Sian Ferguson for everydayfeminism.com, 2015
The first self-discovery book to examine white body supremacy in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. Written by Resmaa Menakem, MSW, 2017
'In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Irreducible Grace Foundation (IGF) is creating new ways to connect with our community. Finding the Pause will provide online videos, activities, and resources for anyone and everyone as we journey through this "new normal."' - Embodied Practices from the Irreducible Grace Foundation