Courageous Conversations About Race

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