Siemens Foundation, Northern Trust commit $10 million for racial equity initiatives

This article presents a case study of the 2006-2007 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) student-led Count Me In! (CMI) campaign. This successful campaign convinced the University of California (UC) to account for 23 AAPI ethnic identities in its data system. Celebrated as a victory for AAPI interests in discourses over racial equity in education, which are often defined by a Black- white racial paradigm, CMI should also be remembered as originating out of efforts to demonstrate AAPI solidarity with Black students and to counter racial wedge politics. In the evolution of the CMI campaign, efforts for cross-racial solidarity soon faded as the desire for institutional validation of AAPI educational struggles was centered. Our case study analysis, guided by sociological frameworks of racism, revealed key limitations in the CMI campaign related to the intricate relations between people of color advocating for racial justice. We conclude with cautions for research and campaigns for ethnically disaggregated AAPI data, and encourage advocates and scholars to address AAPI concerns over educational disparities while simultaneously and intentionally building coalitions for racial equity in higher education.

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Financial firms team up on racial equity initiative

Corporate Philanthropy Report ◽

10.1002/cprt.30967 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 36 (7) ◽

pp. 2-3

Keyword(s):

Racial Equity ◽

Financial Firms

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Towards racial equity in publishing at Early Childhood Research Quarterly (ECRQ)

Early Childhood Research Quarterly ◽

10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.01.003 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Racial Equity ◽

Early Childhood Research

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Enhancing racial equity in LIS research by increasing representation of BIPOC

Education for Information ◽

10.3233/efi-211530 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 247-256

Author(s):

Charles R. Senteio ◽

Kaitlin E. Montague ◽

Bettina Campbell ◽

Terrance R. Campbell ◽

Samantha Seigerman

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Participatory Research ◽

Community Based Participatory Research ◽

Health Inequity ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Social Injustice ◽

Racial Equity ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Partners ◽

Racial Injustice

The escalation of discourse on racial injustice prompts novel ideas to address the persistent lack of racial equity in LIS research. The underrepresentation of BIPOC perspectives contributes to the inequity. Applying the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach meaningfully engages BIPOC to help guide LIS investigations that identify evolving needs and concerns, such as how systematic racism may contribute to social justice issues like environmental and health inequity. Engaging with BIPOC, using the CBPR approach, can help address racial equity in LIS because it will result in increased racial representation which enables incorporation of the perspectives and priorities of BIPOC. This shift to greater engagement is imperative to respond to escalating attention to social injustice and ensure that these central issues are adequately reflected in LIS research. The discipline is positioned to help detail the drivers and implications of inequity and develop ways to address them. We underscore the importance of working across research disciplines by describing our CBPR experience engaging with BIPOC in LIS research. We highlight the perspectives of community partners who have over two decades of experience with community-based LIS research. We offer lessons learned to LIS researchers by describing the factors that make these initiatives successful and those which contribute to setbacks.

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Phoenix Rising: The Evolution of Holyoke’s Collaborative Organizing for Healthy Food Resilience

Health Promotion Practice ◽

10.1177/1524839918788849 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 63S-69S

Author(s):

Catherine Sands ◽

Neftali Duran ◽

Laura Christoph ◽

Carol Stewart

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Food System ◽

Healthy Food ◽

Power Sharing ◽

Racial Equity ◽

Local Leadership ◽

Safe Spaces ◽

Community Power ◽

Community Representation

In the Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council (HFFPC) case study, the challenges of providing equitable multistakeholder organizing are examined. The importance of housing the work in the community, power sharing, and having community representation in the leadership is made clear. The HFFPC partnership began with vigor, encountered challenges of trust, transparency, aligned goals and values; it dissolved, and reformed. Because it began with shared values of strong communities and healthy people, the partnership continues to evolve, build local leadership, change narratives, and articulate the need for racial equity in their food system, while shifting local systems and policies that frame who has access to healthy food and safe spaces to exercise in a low-income Latino community.

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