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Policy, as used here, refers to the laws and regulations that govern major systems, including health, education, criminal justice, education and so on. Individuals are deeply and directly affected by policies and systems, including the laws and regulations themselves. They are also deeply and directly affected by unequal application by race/ethnicity of common policies and laws, and by unequal consequences by race/ethnicity when they are applied. This spiral of difference – in application, enforcement and consequences – is one way of understanding structural racism and internalized advantage and disadvantage within a general system of inequity.
This spiral affects outcomes on almost every issue individuals, groups, communities and nations care about. For example, differences in the wealth among racial/ethnic groups today are built in large part on policies of the 1940's and 1950's that determined which racial or ethnic groups could get low-cost mortgages, and where they could buy houses. The strongest predictor, in a statistical sense, of differences in educational achievement among racial/ethnic groups today is still the economic status and education level of one's parents. Policies of the 1940's and 1950's that allowed most whites but few people of color who served in World War II to go to college at little or no cost still influence those differences. In some cases, the policies were explicitly created with the intent to discriminate by race (for example, red-lining, a well-known example. In other cases, and continuing today even though negative race specific policies are largely illegal, some policies have that impact, even if that is not the intent. This section provides content about strategies aimed at changing policies and systems, including litigation.
Key sites
Tools
- Assessing Public Policy Issues and Political Candidates
Paul Kivel
- The Policy Framework for Substantive Equality
Government of Western Australia
- A Handbook of Data Collection Tools: Companion to a " Guide for Measuring Advocacy and Policy"
Organizational Research Services
- Making A Difference: An Advocacy Training For Community Change
The Praxis Project
- Racial Impact Statements: Changing Policies to Address Disparities
Marc Mauer
- Racial Equity Tool: Policy Review Worksheet
Puget Sound Educational Service District
- 2 of 5: BY THE NUMBERS using disaggregated data to inform policies, practices and decision-making
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Using Racial Equity Impact Assessments for Effective Policymaking
Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Changing the Lights
Julie Nelson, Government Alliance on Race and Equity and Glenn Harris, Center for Social Inclusion
Resources
- Leading At The Intersections: An Introduction To The Intersectional Approach Model For Policy & Social Change
C. Nicole Mason, PhD, Women of Color Policy Network
- Race, Power and Policy: Dismantling Structural Racism
Grassroots Policy Project
- Louder than Words: Lawyers, Communities and the Struggle for Justice
Penda D. Hair, The Rockefeller Foundation
- Maine Racial Justice Policy Guide
Ben Chin, Maine People’s Resource Center
- Toolkit on State Anti-Racial Profiling Legislation: Proactive Team Guide
Racial Profiling: Face the Truth
- Racial Equity Toolkit: Implementing Greenlining's Racial Equity Framework
Adrian Sanchez and Carla Saporta, Greenlining Institute
- Race and Economic Jeopardy For All: A Framing Paper for Defeating Dog Whistle Politics
Ian Haney López
- Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda
- Expanding Sanctuary: What Makes a City a Sanctuary Now?
Mijente
- A Little Thought Exercise about the Right Wing and the Political Culture of our Times
Scot Nakagawa and Suzanne Pharr
- Finding Leverage over the Social Determinants of Health: Insights from a Study of 33 Health Conversion Foundations
Doug Easterling, and Laura McDuffee, Wake Forest School of Medicine
- Racial Justice Online Action Center
Center for Racial and Gender Equity
- Connecting the Dots: Border Militarism, US Domestic and Foreign Policy, and the Myriad Connections of Racial Capitalism Webinars
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