Week 2 - Microaggressions, Whiteness and Implicit Bias

Resources and Discussion Prompts鈥

Welcome to CUPA-HR's 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge 漏 brought to you by CEAS HR for higher education leaders! The resources and questions below are designed to be spread out through the week as you build your racial equity habit.

Read and Watch
 

Using a series of photographs by Kiyum Kim, Heben Nigatu elaborates on the term 鈥渕icroaggression.鈥 Note that Ibram X. Kendi, in his recent book How to Be an Antiracist, calls us to consider using the term 鈥渞acist abuse鈥 as a more descriptive alternative.

By Quinn Norton, exploring where the term 鈥渨hite people鈥 comes from and which ethnic groups have and have not been able to become 鈥渨hite鈥 over the course of U.S. history, The Message (October 17, 2014)

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PBS News Hour

Higher Ed Perspective
By Sharon L. Davies, Association of American Colleges and Universities

For Live Discussion

Please join us every Friday through this challenge from 1-2 p.m. for a live discussion. Join the meeting at . 
If you鈥檙e unable to participate in the live discussion or would like to have additional discussion time, please visit the Pre-Recorded Town Hall Discussion section. 

  • What are some examples of microaggressions you hear regularly?
  • What are some examples of how implicit bias may influence decision-making on your campus?
  • What are some concrete things you can do to mitigate the effects of implicit bias on these decisions?

Pre-Recorded Town Hall Discussion (recorded August 2020)

The facilitators for this week's Town Hall discussion are:
 

Lynne Adams

Ph. D., associate vice president for human resources and organizational development at Prince George's Community College

Jackie Bichsel

Ph.D., director of research at CUPA-HR

Questions? Contact alisha.bennett@colorado.edu

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