Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change
- 5h 10m
- 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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Defining Justice
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The Minimization, Weaponization, and Demonization of Racial Justice Concepts
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Operationalizing Justice—A Radical Shift in Consciousness
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The Leadership Imperative
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A Developmental Approach to Racial Justice
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Anticipating Resistance
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Addressing Resistance
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Neutrality Isn’t Neutral—Whose Values Do We Value in the Workplace?
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Employees Can’t Be Safe until They Feel Safe
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Closed Mouths Don’t Get Justice
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Accountability Through Restorative Dialogue
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The Problem with “Professionalism”
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Allyship is for All
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The Problem with DEIJ Data
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Make a Difference with Your DEIJ Data—A Four-Step Process
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How to Make Reparations a Reality Now
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Recruiting, Hiring, and Other HR Practices for Racial Justice
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Disrupting What it Means to Be a Productive and Healthy Workplace
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A Racial Justice–Centered Approach to Learning and Development
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Justice in Procurement
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How Algorithms Automate Bias
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Disrupting the Racist Narrative in Marketing and Advertising
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Justice in Philanthropy
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Conclusion—Radical Change
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Notes
