Courageous Conversations About Race

A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools and Beyond
Third Edition (Updated Edition)
Glenn E. Singleton - Pacific Educational Group
Courageous Conversations About Race
July 2021 | 312 pages | Corwin
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Deepen the dialogue to address racial disparities in your organization

Schools, like all organizations, face a nearly insurmountable hurdle when addressing racial inequities—the inability to talk candidly about race. In this timely update, author Glenn Singleton enables you to break the silence and open an authentic dialogue that forges a path to progress for racial equity. The third edition offers new coverage of the structural inequities in schools and society that have been exposed by the pandemic as well as heightened public awareness of racial injustice.

Courageous Conversations about Race allows you to deepen your personal understanding of race and its impact on all students. You will discover how to apply the strategy and protocol to

  • Embrace the four agreements—stay engaged, speak your truth, experience discomfort and accept non-closure—to deepen interracial dialogue

  • Build a foundation for advancing equity using the Six Conditions of Courageous Conversation

  • Examine the role of race in your life using the Courageous Conversation Compass to understand and guide your actions

  • Expand your capacity to lead others on the journey in addressing institutional racism disparities

This guide empowers you with practical tools and insights to successfully challenge racist policies and practice in schools and beyond. It is your call to leadership—one that will impact student achievement and drive systemic transformation.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

  • Chapter 1. Breaking the Silence: Ushering in Courageous Conversation About Race
  • Racial Achievement Disparities and Other Systemic Racial Inequities
  • Three Critical Factors
  • The Courageous Conversation Strategy and Protocol

PART 1. PASSION: AN ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP

  • Chapter 2. What’s So Courageous About This Conversation?
  • Courageous Conversation
  • A Difficult Conversation
  • Chapter 3. Why Race?
  • The Problem of the Color Line
  • Racial Disparity
  • Race as a Factor in Education and Beyond
  • Dealing With Race
  • Establishing Common Language Around Race
  • Do We Have the Will?
  • Chapter 4. Agreeing to Talk About Race
  • Racial Consciousness
  • Four Agreements of Courageous Conversation

PART 2. PRACTICE: THE FOUNDATION OF RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP

  • Chapter 5. The First Condition: Getting Personal, Right Here and Right Now
  • Personal, Local, and Immediate
  • The Impact of Race on My Life
  • Degree of Racial Consciousness
  • Racial Consciousness Versus Racial Unconsciousness
  • Chapter 6. The Second Condition: Keeping the Spotlight on Race
  • Isolating Race
  • Unpacking Race
  • Chapter 7. The Third Condition: Engaging Multiple Racial Perspectives
  • Social Construction of Knowledge
  • Surfacing Critical Perspectives
  • Chapter 8. The Fourth Condition: Keeping Us All at the Table
  • Interracial Dialogue
  • Creating Safety
  • The Courageous Conversation Compass
  • Chapter 9. The Fifth Condition: What Do You Mean By “Race”?
  • A Brief History of Race
  • A Working Definition of Race
  • Chapter 10. The Sixth Condition: Let’s Talk About Whiteness
  • White Is a Color
  • White Privilege
  • White Is a Culture
  • White Consciousness
  • Whiteness as Examined in the Five Conditions
  • White Racial Identity Development

PART 3. PERSISTENCE: THE KEY TO RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP

  • Chapter 11. How Racial Equity Leaders Eliminate Systemic Racial Disparities
  • Invisibility Versus Hypervisibility
  • Understanding Students of Color and Indigenous Students Within a White School
  • Understanding Systemic White Racism
  • The Injustice of Gradualism and Incremental Change
  • Chapter 12. Exploring a Systemic Framework for Achieving Equity in Schools
  • A Vision of Equity
  • Systemic Racial Equity Transformation
  • Chapter 13. Courageous Conversation as a Strategy for Achieving Equity in Schools
  • Personal Racial Equity Leadership
  • Individual Teacher Racial Equity Leadership
  • Whole-School Racial Equity Leadership
  • Systemic Racial Equity Leadership

References and Selected Bibliography

References and Selected Bibliography

Index

Index

Resources

Description

Deepen the dialogue to address racial disparities in your organization

Schools, like all organizations, face a nearly insurmountable hurdle when addressing racial inequities—the inability to talk candidly about race. In this timely update, author Glenn Singleton enables you to break the silence and open an authentic dialogue that forges a path to progress for racial equity. The third edition offers new coverage of the structural inequities in schools and society that have been exposed by the pandemic as well as heightened public awareness of racial injustice.

Courageous Conversations about Race allows you to deepen your personal understanding of race and its impact on all students. You will discover how to apply the strategy and protocol to

  • Embrace the four agreements—stay engaged, speak your truth, experience discomfort and accept non-closure—to deepen interracial dialogue

  • Build a foundation for advancing equity using the Six Conditions of Courageous Conversation

  • Examine the role of race in your life using the Courageous Conversation Compass to understand and guide your actions

  • Expand your capacity to lead others on the journey in addressing institutional racism disparities

This guide empowers you with practical tools and insights to successfully challenge racist policies and practice in schools and beyond. It is your call to leadership—one that will impact student achievement and drive systemic transformation.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

  • Chapter 1. Breaking the Silence: Ushering in Courageous Conversation About Race
  • Racial Achievement Disparities and Other Systemic Racial Inequities
  • Three Critical Factors
  • The Courageous Conversation Strategy and Protocol

PART 1. PASSION: AN ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP

  • Chapter 2. What’s So Courageous About This Conversation?
  • Courageous Conversation
  • A Difficult Conversation
  • Chapter 3. Why Race?
  • The Problem of the Color Line
  • Racial Disparity
  • Race as a Factor in Education and Beyond
  • Dealing With Race
  • Establishing Common Language Around Race
  • Do We Have the Will?
  • Chapter 4. Agreeing to Talk About Race
  • Racial Consciousness
  • Four Agreements of Courageous Conversation

PART 2. PRACTICE: THE FOUNDATION OF RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP

  • Chapter 5. The First Condition: Getting Personal, Right Here and Right Now
  • Personal, Local, and Immediate
  • The Impact of Race on My Life
  • Degree of Racial Consciousness
  • Racial Consciousness Versus Racial Unconsciousness
  • Chapter 6. The Second Condition: Keeping the Spotlight on Race
  • Isolating Race
  • Unpacking Race
  • Chapter 7. The Third Condition: Engaging Multiple Racial Perspectives
  • Social Construction of Knowledge
  • Surfacing Critical Perspectives
  • Chapter 8. The Fourth Condition: Keeping Us All at the Table
  • Interracial Dialogue
  • Creating Safety
  • The Courageous Conversation Compass
  • Chapter 9. The Fifth Condition: What Do You Mean By “Race”?
  • A Brief History of Race
  • A Working Definition of Race
  • Chapter 10. The Sixth Condition: Let’s Talk About Whiteness
  • White Is a Color
  • White Privilege
  • White Is a Culture
  • White Consciousness
  • Whiteness as Examined in the Five Conditions
  • White Racial Identity Development

PART 3. PERSISTENCE: THE KEY TO RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP

  • Chapter 11. How Racial Equity Leaders Eliminate Systemic Racial Disparities
  • Invisibility Versus Hypervisibility
  • Understanding Students of Color and Indigenous Students Within a White School
  • Understanding Systemic White Racism
  • The Injustice of Gradualism and Incremental Change
  • Chapter 12. Exploring a Systemic Framework for Achieving Equity in Schools
  • A Vision of Equity
  • Systemic Racial Equity Transformation
  • Chapter 13. Courageous Conversation as a Strategy for Achieving Equity in Schools
  • Personal Racial Equity Leadership
  • Individual Teacher Racial Equity Leadership
  • Whole-School Racial Equity Leadership
  • Systemic Racial Equity Leadership

References and Selected Bibliography

References and Selected Bibliography

Index

Index

Resources

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A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools and Beyond

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Deepen the dialogue to address racial disparities in your organization

Schools, like all organizations, face a nearly insurmountable hurdle when addressing racial inequities—the inability to talk candidly about race. In this timely update, author Glenn Singleton enables you to break the silence and open an authentic dialogue that forges a path to progress for racial equity. The third edition offers new coverage of the structural inequities in schools and society that have been exposed by the pandemic as well as heightened public awareness of racial injustice.

Courageous Conversations about Race allows you to deepen your personal understanding of race and its impact on all students. You will discover how to apply the strategy and protocol to

  • Embrace the four agreements—stay engaged, speak your truth, experience discomfort and accept non-closure—to deepen interracial dialogue

  • Build a foundation for advancing equity using the Six Conditions of Courageous Conversation

  • Examine the role of race in your life using the Courageous Conversation Compass to understand and guide your actions

  • Expand your capacity to lead others on the journey in addressing institutional racism disparities

This guide empowers you with practical tools and insights to successfully challenge racist policies and practice in schools and beyond. It is your call to leadership—one that will impact student achievement and drive systemic transformation.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Breaking the Silence: Ushering in Courageous Conversation About Race
  • Racial Achievement Disparities and Other Systemic Racial Inequities
  • Three Critical Factors
  • The Courageous Conversation Strategy and Protocol
  • PART 1. PASSION: AN ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP
  • Chapter 2. What’s So Courageous About This Conversation?
  • Courageous Conversation
  • A Difficult Conversation
  • Chapter 3. Why Race?
  • The Problem of the Color Line
  • Racial Disparity
  • Race as a Factor in Education and Beyond
  • Dealing With Race
  • Establishing Common Language Around Race
  • Do We Have the Will?
  • Chapter 4. Agreeing to Talk About Race
  • Racial Consciousness
  • Four Agreements of Courageous Conversation
  • PART 2. PRACTICE: THE FOUNDATION OF RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP
  • Chapter 5. The First Condition: Getting Personal, Right Here and Right Now
  • Personal, Local, and Immediate
  • The Impact of Race on My Life
  • Degree of Racial Consciousness
  • Racial Consciousness Versus Racial Unconsciousness
  • Chapter 6. The Second Condition: Keeping the Spotlight on Race
  • Isolating Race
  • Unpacking Race
  • Chapter 7. The Third Condition: Engaging Multiple Racial Perspectives
  • Social Construction of Knowledge
  • Surfacing Critical Perspectives
  • Chapter 8. The Fourth Condition: Keeping Us All at the Table
  • Interracial Dialogue
  • Creating Safety
  • The Courageous Conversation Compass
  • Chapter 9. The Fifth Condition: What Do You Mean By “Race”?
  • A Brief History of Race
  • A Working Definition of Race
  • Chapter 10. The Sixth Condition: Let’s Talk About Whiteness
  • White Is a Color
  • White Privilege
  • White Is a Culture
  • White Consciousness
  • Whiteness as Examined in the Five Conditions
  • White Racial Identity Development
  • PART 3. PERSISTENCE: THE KEY TO RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIP
  • Chapter 11. How Racial Equity Leaders Eliminate Systemic Racial Disparities
  • Invisibility Versus Hypervisibility
  • Understanding Students of Color and Indigenous Students Within a White School
  • Understanding Systemic White Racism
  • The Injustice of Gradualism and Incremental Change
  • Chapter 12. Exploring a Systemic Framework for Achieving Equity in Schools
  • A Vision of Equity
  • Systemic Racial Equity Transformation
  • Chapter 13. Courageous Conversation as a Strategy for Achieving Equity in Schools
  • Personal Racial Equity Leadership
  • Individual Teacher Racial Equity Leadership
  • Whole-School Racial Equity Leadership
  • Systemic Racial Equity Leadership
  • References and Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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