Justice and Anti-Racism Skills
So far in this book, you have focused on developing skills for engaging interculturally. You have learned that interculturality is not simply a set of skills that you develop on your own, but rather a way of being in relationships that includes openness, listening, and respect. While we have emphasized respectful relationships, we have not yet looked at how these skills might apply to how we approach larger patterns of social injustice. In this section of the book, we will explore a framework called Deep Diversity that provides us will knowledge, skills, and actions steps that increase our capacity to challenge discrimination that we observe in society. While this approach is framed as an anti-racism practice, the skills we learn here can help us to address issues including Anti-Indigenous bias, antisemitism, ableism, and gender discrimination.
This section is based on Shakil Choudhury’s (2021) Deep Diversity framework, which presents four key areas of development for challenging racism: emotions, bias, identity, and power.
Section Learning Objectives
By the time you have completed this section, you should be equipped to:
- Apply Emotional Intelligence skills to emotions that arise from difference.
- Identify and challenge biases, while understanding how bias creates social injustice.
- Explain the impact of identity groups on social inequality, and
- Analyze the impact of power on social systems and use personal power to advocate for self and others.
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