Research Guides: Anti-Racism in Medicine, Nursing, &amp; Health Sciences: Academic Workplace

Academic Workplace

Academics for Black Survival and Wellness
Blackface in White Space: Using Admissions to Address Racism in Medical Education
Anderson, N., Boatright, D., & Reisman, A. (2020). Blackface in white space: Using admissions to address racism in medical education. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(10), 3060–3062. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06079-4
Building the Anti-Racist University: Next Steps
Tate, S. A., & Bagguley, P. (2017). Building the anti-racist university: Next steps. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 20(3), 289-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2016.1260227
How Higher Ed Can Fight Racism: ‘Speak Up When It’s Hard’
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
Is Your University Racist?
From Inside Higher Education.
White Academia - Do Better
Equity-Minded Student Services in the Online Environment
Exploring Faculty Salary Equity at U.S. Medical Schools by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
Designed for individuals or institutions seeking medical school faculty compensation information for hiring, benchmarking, or retaining purposes and for medical school department chairs, deans, associate deans, and other leaders who might use the data for addressing equitable compensation practices among faculty.
Free downloadable PDF.

Anti-Oppressive Facilitation For Democratic Process: Making Meetings Awesome For Everyone
Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator
Created by Wheaton College, this action-oriented guide features a wide range of resources to educators become anti-racist.
Bias-Free Language
From Northern Illinois University: Effective Writing Practices Tutorial
Confronting Racism at Work: A Reading List
From the editors of the Harvard Business Review.
Dismantling Anti-Black Bias in Democratic Workplaces
Facilitation Tools For Meetings and Workshops: A Compilation of Tools and Techniques for Working in Groups and Facilitating Meetings or Workshops
Guide for Setting Ground Rules
From EdChange.org
Examples and strategies for creating guidelines for participation in and the facilitation of discussions on social justice concerns.
How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
From the Harvard Business Review.
Inclusive Language Guidelines
From the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School. Includes recommendations of alternative terms for commonly used words, phrases, rules and concepts.
Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot
Organizational Change Processe
From the website, Racial Equity Tools.

Power & Privilege Definitions
List of definitions relating to power and privilege from Vanderbilt University.

Roadmap For Racial Equity In Workforce Development
The Roadmap for Racial Equity: An Imperative for Workforce Development Advocates is a report aimed as a first effort at laying out the pervasive issues of racism and exclusion in the workforce and education systems, as well as potential solutions for remedying these persistent problems.

Intersectionality Toolkit
Created by The International LGBTQ Youth
and Student Organisation in 2014.
“We Are All for Diversity, but . . .”: How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change
Addresses issues in hiring diverse faculty with practical suggestions for change

Academics for Black Survival and Wellness Anti-Racism Training
Academics for Black Survival and Wellness provided a 7-day anti-racist training in June of 2020 and 21-day training in August of 2020 for non-Black academics to honor the toll that anti-Black racism has on the Black community and their colleagues. This page provides an overview of the content covered during the training and video discussions for those topics.
Active Bystander Orientation
From the Digital Library Federation. The 2019 DLF Committee on Equity and Inclusion has put together an Active Bystander Orientation session to help address strategies for bystander intervention.
Be a Better Ally
From Harvard Business Review
Stages of White Racial Identity Development
This guide is organized in relation to the White Racial Identity Model developed by Dr. Janet E. Helms and described in A Race is a Nice Thing to Have. To quote their guide, "The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work."
Toolkit for "Anatomy of an Ally"
From Teaching Tolerance. This toolkit for “Anatomy of an Ally” addresses the complex and challenging work of being an ally and presents a framework for helping social justice educators think about their own ally identity development.
Webinar: Anti-Racism in Academia (ARiA): A Learning Journey - REACH OUT
The ARiA webinar series was created to inspire a more understanding and inclusive community in higher education by engaging professionals of all levels and across disciplines. Combatting racism on a personal, professional, and communal scale requires time and intentional effort; it really is a journey of discovery and understanding. The ARiA series framework is organized into five parts: Reach Out, Listen, Learn, Act, Persist.