Session 42 - Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusion

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Diversity and Social Justice
Maurice W. Dorsey, Ph.D.
National Program Leader for Public Policy
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Welcome!
• Focus of workshop is YOU! Who are You? How
do you know?
• Use of Self as Instrument of Change (K.K. Smith, 1990)
• Individual, interpersonal, group, organization,
and system levels of change
• Goals to achieve self-knowledge and selfmanagement
Ground Rules
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Open mind
Assume a positive intent
Commit to engagement and listening
Open to deconstructing self
Open to rethinking self
Confidentiality
Sensitive Terminology
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Gender
Racial
Religions
Sexual Orientation
Social Class
Physical Characteristics
Others
Multiple Groups Identities
Dominant and Subordinated Group
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White
Male
Christian
Heterosexual
Rich
Professional
Abled
Black
Female
Non-Christian
Homo, Bi, Trans
Poor
Non Professional
Differently Abled
What Are Other Dominant and
Subordinated Groups?
What Are Your Dominant Group
Memberships?
How do you feel being in these dominant groups?
What Are Your Subordinated
Groups?
How do you feel being in these groups?
Quadrant Behavior Theory (QBT)
(Dr. Cathy
. Royal)
White/Male
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Black/Male
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White/Female
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Claim, Accept, and Own Your
Dominant and Subordinated Group
Identities
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We are a group society
Dominant groups have privileges
Dominant groups are difficult to enter
Dominant groups affects self-perception
Group identity brings alignment to self
Institutionalized and Internal
Oppression (Barbara Love,1989)
• Institutionalized oppression is when the group,
organization, or system maintains high dominant
group identities.
• Internalized oppression is within you, when you
deny your subordinated group identification.
Examples of Internalized
Oppression
• Women who hate to work for women supervisors
• Gays and Lesbians who are homophobic and
ashamed of other gays and lesbians
• Blacks who hate their image and will kill other
blacks
• Christians that condemn other Christians
Johari Window
Known Self
Blind Self
Hidden Self
Unknown Self
Johari Window
• Public Self are things you and others know
about you (conscious)
• Blind Self are things that others know
about you but you do not (unconscious)
• Hidden Self are things that you know
about you and others do not (conscious)
• Unknown Self are things about you that
you and others do not know
(unconscious)
Self-Critique
• List public self
• List hidden self
• List blind self
• Unknown and new things you are learning
Cycle of Experience…on YOU
Gestalt Therapy
• Intra psychic Experience (core
values)=thoughts, memories, dreams,
sensations
• Individual Experience=bias, prejudices, bigotry,
class, age, race, sexual, spiritual, abilities, etc.
• Environmental Experience=individual, family,
groups, community, organization, nation, world,
universe
Cycle of Experiences
Gestalt Therapy
List some of your intra psychic, individual, and/or
environmental experiences that have impacted
you.
Tracking Behaviors
(Elsie Cross & Associates, Inc. & Delyte. D. Frost, et.al. 1994)
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Track group memberships
Who is in the group
Who is talking/silence
Who initiates
Who interrupts whom
What group patterns do you see
What is the IMPACT ON YOU!
Intervening Behaviors
Subordinated Groups
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Use self to create change-YOU
Women’s intervention
Black intervention
Gay-lesbian intervention
Hispanic intervention
Physically challenged
What is the Impact on You?
• What is the impact on your internalized self?
• How much are you in alignment with what
comes out of your mouth and what shows up in
your actions?
• How oppressed do you feel inside yourself?
• How will you reconstruct you dominant identity?
Path to Diversity Competence
Elsie Cross and Associates adapted by Jack Gant & Delyte Frost
Denial
Fear
Integration
Competence
Path to Diversity Competence
Elsie Cross and Associates
• Denial is a position of nothing is wrong
• Fear is of understanding what is before
you but you are immobilized
• Integration is starting to make change or
defrosting
• Competence is habit of doing the right
thing
Getting Grounded in Who You Are
• Knowing your dominant and subordinated groups
• Claiming and accepting your group identities
• Understanding the privilege that comes with your
dominant group
• Understand oppression: institutionalized and internal
• Know your blind self and hidden self
• Learn tracking, intervention, and impacts of group
identities on on YOU!
YOU
• Who are you?
• How do you know?
Self-Evaluation
• Do you understand the difference between dominate and
subordinated groups?
• Do you claim, accept, own, your group identities?
• Do you understand the concept of privilege?
• Do you understand the concept of oppression?
• Do you know more about your blind self?
• Do you understand the concept of tracking, intervention,
and the impact of group identities on You?
Credits:
NTL Institute for Applied and Behavioral Sciences
Program Specialist, Antonio McLaren
Logo Design: Annetta Barnes-Oates
Thank You!
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