Week 1 - History Through the Lens of Race | Faculty & Staff

Resources and Discussion Prompts

Welcome to CUPA-HR's 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge © brought to you by CEAS HR for higher education leaders! The resources and questions below are designed to be spread out through the week as you build your racial equity habit.

Read and Watch

An Adam Ruins Everything episode that quickly and humorously explains how redlining came to be.
(6 minutes)

By Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, The New York Times (August 14, 2019)

Michelle Alexander contextualizes the current state of racism/white supremacy in the United States as an inevitable outcome of a collective narrative steeped in denial.

By Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic (June 2014)

Higher Ed Perspective
American Council on Education

Alternate Resource: Consider if you are unable to access one of the articles above.
Host Jeremy Hobson explores with Edward Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, how slavery established the United States as a world economic power.
(15 minutes)

For Live Discussion

Please join us every Friday through this challenge from 1-2 p.m. for a live discussion. Join the meeting at .
If you’re unable to participate in the live discussion or would like to have additional discussion time, please visit the Pre-Recorded Town Hall Discussion section.

How do racialized poverty and housing touch your faculty, staff, and students?
What programs exist at your institution to educate your college community about the history of race relations in the U.S.?
How can you promote these discussions in the current environment?
What would you like to see your leadership doing differently to address racial injustice on your campus and in your community? How can you help facilitate these changes/discussions?