Race, Equity, & Inclusion
Race, equity, and inclusion exist at the core of HDC’s values and mission. It is only by joining together in this essential work of disrupting inequitable systems within our region’s affordable housing sector, can we achieve our vision that all people throughout King County live with dignity in safe, healthy, and affordable homes.
Race, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
Recommended Readings by Black Authors
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Emergent Strategies: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Adrienne Maree Brown
How To Be An Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DeRay Mckesson
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Dr. Joy DeGruy
Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
Robin D. Kelly
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
10 Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You
Articles
The Social Justice Sector has an Internal Racism Problem
Itzbeth Menjiva
The Racist Practice of Mispronouncing Names
Keyan Roy, Zuheera Ali and Medha Kumar
Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People
Kelsey Blackwell
Challenging Race As Risk: How Implicit Bias Undermines Housing Opportunity in America
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity
How to Uphold White Supremacy by Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion
Kẏra
Accomplices Not Allies, An Indigenous Perspective and Provocation
Indigenous Action Media
Racial Equity Toolkit
This toolkit is designed so that it can be customized to fit the needs and characteristics of your organization. This tool is meant to provide context for why racial equity work is important by providing a backdrop for our efforts. Feel free to use this to educate your fellow staff and management to help achieve a common, baseline understanding in your organization.
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Race, Equity, & Inclusion Sponsors
Thank your to our sponsors that help make this work possible.
