The Intersection of Racial Justice and L&D

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The Intersection of Racial Justice and LD
It's been an honour to see how our Instructional
Designers in Offices Drinking Coffee (IDIODC)
video-and podcast have grown into a community
over the past two years. Every week dozens of
people join us for a discussion on important
topics for our industry and for us as
practitioners. And every week we try to focus on
conversations that can help all of us be better
in our work. For last week's episode (June 10,
2020) we did something different to focus on the
critical importance of coming to grips with
racism and how it manifests itself in the
learning and development world. The horrific
murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25
once again showed that even if we don't think we
as individuals are racist, so much of our world
is structured unfairly against black and
indigenous people. As much as we believe that
people in LD are caring, our industry is a
reflection of society as a whole.
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So last week on the video-cast Jessica Jackson,
Myra Roldan and Nyla Spooner led us through a
discussion on The Intersection of Racial Justice
and LD. Thank you Jessica, Myra and Nyla for
trusting us and the IDIODC community enough to
hold this conversation. It was a powerful
session. Here's the recording. A lot of
additional work was happening in the session's
chat, where the community shared links to almost
two dozen resources. We've gathered up those
resources below.
What's Next? This can't be a one-off event. So
what are we going to do to move forward? From an
IDIDOC perspective, we're adding additional goals
to our planning process for inviting and
including guests. We already have a policy to
ensure our guest list has a 50-50 gender balance.
We're adding to that policy to ensure higher
representation of black, indigenous and people of
colour (BIPOC) guests.
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To be clear, this isn't just to speak about
racism as a topic, it's about any topic that is
important for LD. Spend some time looking at the
speaker lists for just about any conference in
our industry, you'll see a low level of BIPOC
representation. We can help change that by
providing more opportunities for
representation. And we'd love to hear from BIPOC
LD practitioners who have expertise to share
with the community. Maybe you've got some lessons
learned from a recent project. Maybe you
researched a critical topic for your graduate
degree. Maybe you've been thinking of submitting
a topic proposal to conferences. Let us know -
we'd love to connect. You can email us at IDIODC
at dominknow dot com. From an individual
perspective, the resources shared in the
session's chat form a pretty solid curriculum for
personal learning as well as for beginning to
change how we act in the world. If you've read
this far, please think about taking one more step
and looking into some of these resources. We are,
after all, the learning and development industry,
and we always have room to learn more and to
develop new understandings and behaviors.
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Resources
To help make things easier, we've organized these
resources into categories. Books Between the
World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Teaching /
Learning Anti-Racism A Developmental Approach by
Louise Derman-Sparks, Carol Brunson Phillips, Asa
G Hilliard III White Rage The Unspoken Truth of
Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson Everyday
Bias Identifying and Navigating Unconscious
Judgments in Our Daily Lives by Howard J.
Ross White Fragility Why It's So Hard for White
People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and
Michael Eric Dyson Me and White Supremacy by
Layla F Saad Lies My teacher Told Me Everything
Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James
W. Loewen A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Scholarly Articles Racial Microaffirmations
Learning from Student Stories of Moments that
Matter by Rosalie Rolon-Dow Multidimensional
Models of Microaggressions and Microaffirmations
by Rosalie Rolon-Dow and James M. Jones
News Articles and Blog Posts The Racial Bias
Built Into Photography by Sarah Lewis Unconscious
bias training a waste of time - 7 reasons why
Starbucks training will not work by Donald
Clark Systemic racism in LD by Sukh
Pabial Inclusive Stock Image Collections Black
Illustrations
Nappy
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Videos and Podcasts
How to be an Anitracist - Session by Aspen Ideas
Festival with Ibram X. Kendi and Jemele Hill The
Confrontation - Podcast by Invisiblia Interview
with Toni Morrison on Black Readership
Additional Resources A Guide to Allyship by
Amelie Lamont Scaffolded Anti-Racism Resources by
Anna Stambroski, Nikki Zimmermann and Bailie
Gregory Anti-racism Resources Curated by Sarah
Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein Tulsa Race
Massacre
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