Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change
- 5h 14m
- Mary-Frances Winters, The Winters Group Team
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- 2023
Creating justice-centered organizations is the next frontier in DEI. This book shows how to go beyond compliance to address harm, share power, and create equity.
Traditional DEI work has not succeeded at dismantling systems that perpetuate harm and exclude BIPOC groups. Proponents of DEI have put too much focus on HR solutions, such as increasing representation, and not enough emphasis on changing the deeper organizational systems that perpetuate inequities-in other words, on justice. DEIJ work diverges from traditional metrics-driven DEI work and requires a new approach to effectively dismantle power structures.
This thought-provoking, solutions-oriented book offers strategic advice on how to adopt a justice mindset, anticipate and address resistance, shift power dynamics, and create a psychologically safe organizational culture. Individual chapters provide pragmatic how-to guides to implementing justice-centered practices in recruitment and hiring, data collection and analysis, learning and development, marketing and advertising, procurement, philanthropy, and more.
DEIJ pioneer Mary-Frances Winters and her coauthors address some of the most significant aspects of adding a justice focus to diversity work, showing how to create a workplace culture where equity is not a checklist of performative actions but a lived reality.
About the Author
Mary-Frances Winters is the founder and president of the Winters Group Inc. She was named a top ten diversity trailblazer by Forbes and a diversity pioneer by Profiles in Diversity Journal, and she is the recipient of the prestigious ATHENA Award as well as the Winds of Change Award conferred by the Forum on Workplace.
The Winters Group Team contributors are Kevin A. Carter, Megan Ellinghausen, Scott Ferry, Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez, Dr. Terrence Harewood, Tami Jackson, Dr. Megan Larson, Leigh Morrison, Katelyn Peterson, Mareisha N. Reese, Thamara Subramanian, and Rochelle Younan-Montgomery.
In this Book
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Introduction—It’s about Correcting Harm
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Chapter One: Defining Justice
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Chapter Two: The Minimization, Weaponization, and Demonization of Racial Justice Concepts
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Chapter Three: Operationalizing Justice—A Radical Shift in Consciousness
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Chapter Four: The Leadership Imperative
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Chapter Five: A Developmental Approach to Racial Justice
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Chapter Six: Anticipating Resistance
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Chapter Seven: Addressing Resistance
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Chapter Eight: Neutrality Isn’t Neutral—Whose Values Do We Value in the Workplace?
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Chapter Nine: Employees Can’t Be Safe until They Feel Safe
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Chapter Ten: Closed Mouths Don’t Get Justice
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Chapter Eleven: Accountability Through Restorative Dialogue
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Chapter Twelve: The Problem with “Professionalism”
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Chapter Thirteen: Allyship is for All
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Chapter Fourteen: The Problem with DEIJ Data
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Chapter Fifteen: Make a Difference with Your DEIJ Data—A Four-Step Process
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Chapter Sixteen: How to Make Reparations a Reality Now
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Chapter Seventeen: Recruiting, Hiring, and Other HR Practices for Racial Justice
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Chapter Eighteen: Disrupting What it Means to Be a Productive and Healthy Workplace
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Chapter Nineteen: A Racial Justice–Centered Approach to Learning and Development
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Chapter Twenty: Justice in Procurement
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Chapter Twenty-One: How Algorithms Automate Bias
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Chapter Twenty-Two: Disrupting the Racist Narrative in Marketing and Advertising
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Chapter Twenty-Three: Justice in Philanthropy
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Conclusion—Radical Change
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Notes
