The Racial Equity Consciousness Database (RECD) is a centralized platform that provides structured resources, research, and best practices to empower communities and organizations in advancing racial equity and addressing systemic racism. Designed with a human-centered approach, this platform removes barriers to accessing essential resources.
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Systemic racism is an endemic public health crisis in the United States that has a profoundly negative impact on the mental and physical health of millions of people—locally, people of color.
Systemic racism is a social virus that is structured and metastasizes through our interconnected web of societal systems—perpetuated through normative, habituated, and often unconscious biases and behaviors—that produces and sustains a reinforcing preponderance of racial inequities across multiple sectors of society.
Harvard public health professor David R. Williams describes the viral nature of systemic racism as “adaptive over time, maintaining its pervasive adverse effects through multiple mechanisms that arise to replace forms that have been diminished.”
Associate Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems, Ron Idoko, founded the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute (RECI) in 2021. RECI mission is to provide individuals and communities with the tools to actively deconstruct racism and cultivate racial equity.
Critical systems thinking mental model of racial equity consciousness development consisting of six interconnected, bilateral spheres of embodiment—reciprocal consciousness development behaviors stimulated through research, education, and praxis cycles.
Through the resource platform linked below, learners & teachers can explore and engage the racial equity consciousness framework and ultimately, cultivate the confidence and mindsets to be innovative and action-oriented agents for transformative social change
Associate Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems, Ron Idoko, founded the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute (RECI) in 2021. RECIs mission is to provide individuals and communities with the tools to actively deconstruct racism and cultivate racial equity.
The film “Illuminating the Vaccine for Racism” highlights RECI’s approach to building the capacity and mindset of individuals and communities to deconstructing racism and cultivating racial equity. The film centers thoughtful reflections from the faculty, staff, and students who have participated in RECI. This film not only sheds light on the complexities of systemic racism but also highlights the power of community to cultivate consciousness toward racial equity.
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Acknowledging Racial Trauma and Fostering Racial Healing
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