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Step 6: Continuing the Journey

 

 

I Can Fix It!

Five easy things you can do starting right now to end racism. Read more

Tools to end racism

 

 

Cultural Humility: People, Principles and Practices - How do you act when you come across someone from a different culture?

 

 

Racial Microaggressions

Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life

Racial microaggressions are the brief and everyday slights, insults, indignities and denigrating messages sent to people of color by well-intentioned white people who are unaware of the hidden message being communicated. Read more

 


Cultural and Linguistic Competency

Self-assessment to identify areas to improve cultural and linguistic competency for healthcare workers.

 

Recommended Readings:

If you want to be a more effective communicator in today's diverse workplace, this book is for you. Ouch That Stereotype Hurts

This book helps readers understand and combat racism in themselves. Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation

The struggles of a Hmong refugee family and their interactions with the health care system. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

An entertaining story to share important lessons about why diversity efforts are bound to fail unless we really understand how we unconsciously respond to difference and how to move to beyond it. The Loudest Duck

While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

A surgeon describes her struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear

Although Jim Crow laws have wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration n the Age of Colorblindness

A black woman's reflection on how dilemmas of class and race are intertwined. Where We Stand: Class Matters

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