Race Matters: Conducting Racial Equity Impact Analyses.ppt

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Todays Face, Tomorrows Future
Friends of Talladega College Meeting New York,
NY October 11, 2005
Conducting Racial Equity Impact Analyses JDAI
National Inter-site Conference September 23, 2008
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Our Starting Assumptions . . .

• Race Matters. Almost every indicator of
  well-being shows troubling disparities/
  disproportionalities by race within class
  groupings
• Class Matters. Caseys mission is to help
  vulnerable kids families succeed. Poverty is a
  significant obstacle to success. Within class
  disparities remain
• Personal Responsibility Matters. Removing
  barriers to opportunity will give people broader
  life choices for exercising responsibility

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Our Starting Assumptions (continued)

• Self-determination Matters. People whose lives
  are affected should be at the table
• Disparities are often created and maintained
  (in)advertently through policies and practices
  that contain barriers to opportunity
• The only way to close gaps is with an intentional
  focus on race
• Given the right message, analysis, and tools,
  people will work toward racial equity

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What is Racial Equity?

• Racial equity is achieved when you cannot predict
  advantage and disadvantage by race
• This can be measured!

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What are Embedded Racial Inequities?

• the accumulated advantages for whites as a group
• the accumulated disadvantages for people of color
  as groups
• produced by public and private sector policies
  and practices
• These effects are reinforced by
• Differential perceptions and images of people of
  color and whites
• Dominant U.S. norms and values
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Doing Work Around Race The Various Approaches

• Our Approach Anti-racism (focus on policies and
  practices)
• Other Valuable Approaches
• Prejudice Reduction
• Healing and Reconciliation
• Diversity/Multiculturalism
• Democracy Building/Civic Participation

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TOOLKIT CONTENTS
RACE
matters

• Race Matters
• Race Matters Users Guide
• Race Matters PowerPoint
• Making the Case
• Whats Race Got to Do With It
• Fact Sheets
• Shaping the Message
• How to Talk about Race
• Doing the Work
• Racial Equity Impact Analysis
• System Reform Strategies
• Community Building Strategies
• Organizational Self-Assessment

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Whats Race Got to Do with It? Value of the Tool

• Prompts the need for disaggregated data guides
  what to do with it
• Organizes discussion to uncover the back
  stories for disparities
• Identifies possible intervention points for change

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Whats Race Got to Do With It?

• What are the possible explanations for the
  disparities?
• Do these explanations themselves contain
  disparities? If so, what causes those?
• How can we unbundle diversity and equity issues?
  focus on structural rather than individual
  issues?
• What does this discussion suggest for possible
  policy or practice interventions to reduce racial
  disparities/disproportionality?

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Racial Equity Impact AnalysisValue of the Tool

• Encourages broad participation in discussion
• Turns generally good ideas into ones that can
  close racial gaps (Move from necessary to
  sufficient policies and practices)

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Racial Equity Impact Analysis

• Are all racial/ethnic groups who are affected by
  the policy at the table?
• How will the proposed policy/practice affect each
  group?
• How will the proposed policy/practice be
  perceived by each group?
• Does the proposal worsen or ignore existing
  disparities?
• What revisions are needed in the policy/practice
  based on these answers?

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Racial Equity Impact Analysis

• Test Drive

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• What was the outcome of your conversation?  Would
  you change the proposed policy/practice to ensure
  that we dont exacerbate DMC issues?
• Did the tool produce a different kind of
  conversation than you typically have re
  policies and practices?
• Was there anything hard/challenging about using
  the tool/the conversation?

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Contact Information

• Susan Taylor Batten, Senior Associate
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• sbatten_at_aecf.org
• www.aecf.org (type Race Matters Toolkit in
  search function)