Informed by decades of experience, Race in America: A Dialogue Guide will provide a roadmap for you to lead courageous, constructive conversations about race in your community.
Essential Partners has collaborated with grassroots groups, activists, schools, faith institutions, and communities across the United States to make new conversations about race possible. Recent projects include:
- Dialogues between police and Black community members in Raleigh, NC
- Community dialogues about faith, race, and ethnicity in Columbia, MD
- Dialogues among BIPOC educators about the dual strains of COVID and BLM
- A set of student-led race dialogues at a secondary school in Cary, NC
This guide contains everything you need to hold three dialogues: one for an all-white group, one for an inter-racial group, and one for a group composed of participants who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color (BIPOC).
The Guide contains an introduction to EP’s theory and approach, step-by-step instructions to design and lead a dialogue, a complete facilitator script, as well as tips for those new to this kind of facilitation.
