Yale Cancer Center, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office has worked closely with Racial Equity Institute to offer a training on understanding, racial inequity.
This is an interactive presentation on the nature and impact of structural racism and what it looks like across institutions. We examine narratives around racial disproportionality and make use of compelling research data to illustrate the systemic nature of racism and the fallacy of typical explanations like poverty, education, social class, individual behavior, or cultural attributes that often get associated with particular racial groups. Before addressing racial inequity or perceived acts of discrimination or oppression, it is critical to understand what institutional racism looks like and the devastating impact it wields on our nation’s people, economy and social institutions.
The Groundwater Approach teaches how to use data to measure the systemic impact of racism and to track institutional change. Once grounded in what the problem of structural racism is, and what it isn’t, participants are ready to move to Phase I training that introduces an analysis of how and why racism was created and how it has been embedded and maintained within and across America’s institutions.
Some organizations use the Groundwater as a first training, and others may use it later in the process to focus on the use of data as an organizing tool, focusing on data in their own institution, community, or state. Some organizations bypass the Groundwater and start with Phase I, which is the foundation of our training and organizing strategy.