Test yourself

• White Perspectives Survey.  Designed by LaTosch Consulting, this is a five minute survey for white people to share their perspectives on when and how they engage in conversations about race.
• Implicit Association Test.  Take this free test from Harvard University and learn more about your personal levels of unconscious bias.
• Is Yours a Learning Organization?  This free real-time test helps you assess the level of support for creativity, innovation and inclusion you experience at your organization.
• Intercultural Development Inventory.  Individual test that generates an analysis of your own level of personal intercultural awareness and education and makes recommendations for improvements.  ***This test is not free and requires contracting with a Qualified Administrator.  Email LaTosch Consulting to schedule your assessment.

“How-To” Guides and examples for Expanding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Awake to Woke to Work.  A guide published by Equity in the Center,  (EiC) which works to shift mindsets, practices and systems in the social sector to center race equity and build a Race Equity Culture.
• Power Moves.  A guide to help the philanthropic sector discover how well you’re building, sharing and wielding power for maximum impact on issues and communities you care about.
• Building Inclusive Nonprofit Organizations.  The Denver Foundation.
• Implicit Bias Review 2013.  The Kirwan Institute.
• Unconscious Bias, annotated bibliography of 30 years of research.  re:gender: http://regender.org/LiteratureReviews/UnconsciousBias
• Step-By-Step: A Guide to Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace.  Third Sector New England (TSNE).
• Race Matters Toolkit.  Annie E. Casey Foundation.
• Learning Together: The Peer Action Learning Network for Diversity & Inclusion.  Council of Michigan Foundations.

Learning Resources

• Nice White Parents podcast. From Serial and The New York Times: “Nice White Parents” looks at the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block.
• The 1619 Project. The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
• Seeing White podcast.  Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions.
• What is Systemic Racism? A series of 2-3 minute video clips from Race Forward that show how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society: Wealth Gap, Employment, Housing Discrimination, Government Surveillance, Incarceration, Drug Arrests, Immigration Arrests, and Infant Mortality.
• Meet Alex [a Miami-based free-lance writer… who also “happens to have Cerebral Palsy.”]  From Cerebral Palsy Guidance (2016)
• How it feels to be a Spanish-speaking in an English-speaking classroom.  From Media Matters (2015)
• MUW student works for LGBT acceptance, understanding.  William Browning, The Dispatch (Nov. 19, 2014)
• ‘Orange is the New Black’ actress: My Parents Were Deported.  Diane Guerrero, LA Times (Nov. 15, 2014)
• This is Why We’re Mad at the Shooting of Mike Brown.  Kara Brown, Jezebel, (Aug. 11, 2014).
• The Whiteness Project. PBS.
• Why I Fear for My Sons.  By Kimberly Norwood (Aug. 25, 2014).  Middle class mom shares experiences of racial profiling and having brown skin.
• Discrimination Against the Disabled is a Problem.  By Caitlin Piper (Apr. 23, 2014).  On living with cerebral palsy among well-intentioned able-bodied people.
• The Box Doesn’t Fit.  By becky martinez (Mar. 4, 2014).  On bi and multi-racial identity.
• Why It’s Not Cool to Talk About Trans People’s ‘Private Parts‘.  Laverne Cox on Katie Couric.
• Cultural Appropriation 101: Featuring Geisha Katy Perry.  Lauren Duca (Nov. 25, 2013).
• A Brief History of Blackface.  Brian L.M. Kelley (Oct. 30, 2013).
• The Asian-American Awakening: that moment when you realize you’re not white.  Connie Zhou (Oct. 16, 2013).
• But You Speak So Well.  Sylvia L. Mazzula (Sept. 26, 2013).
• Disabled People as a Test of Character: The Guinness Commercial.  Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg (Sept. 4, 2013).

Educational newsletters, websites, and reports

• ColorLines.  Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning investigative reporting and news analysis. Colorlines is published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media and practice.
• Diversity Inc.  A national publication whose mission is to bring education and clarity to the business benefits of diversity.
• The Inclusion Solution Daily.  Daily news on diversity & inclusion around the globe.
• The Othering and Belonging Institute at the UCLA.  Brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change.
• The Race Card.  News and comment for a multi-ethnic Britain.
• Race Equity Tools. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.
• The Root.  Black news, opinions, politics and culture.
• The Williams Institute.  Rigorous, independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.