Posted By Nicki Leone,
Monday, February 6, 2023
Updated: Friday, February 3, 2023
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21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Day 1
 "Create the change the world needs by creating change within yourself." - Layla F. Saad
Author Photo Credit: LaylaFSaad.com | Quote from Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad, Sourcebooks, 2020
Learn
Understanding the process of racial identity development is important for self-awareness, relationship-building, and work for equity. We are, all of us, wonderful mash-ups of identities and experiences and we invite you to reflect specifically on where you are in the different stages of racial identity development. Visit or revisit this summary of different racial identity development models or listen to some of the stories on the EmbraceRace website that speak to how racialization shapes our individual and collective lives.
Reflect
- What thoughts, feelings, and sensations do you notice, having reviewed one or more of the models?
- How do you think about your own racial identity and its relevance to your life, work, studies, and/or volunteerism in the book industry?
- Consider doing an art response (drawing, poetry, music, collage, etc.) regarding where you are in your racial identity development and what this means to you.
Act
Have a conversation with a friend or family member about racial identity development. Also consider talking with someone you know, who would be willing, who identifies as being of a different race. Take this framework into your community or workplace (or both) and discuss. Ask "How might this guide or inform our collective work for racial equity?"
Dig Deeper
Explore other links on the Challenge Resource Page. See how other Challenge participants are doing, and let them know how you are doing on the Challenge Bulletin Board
SIBA thanks its generous sponsors, who have made the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge possible:
 
 Many of the quotes used in the Challenge are excerpted from Words of Change: Anti-Racism by permission of Sasquatch Books. Copyright 2020 By Kenyra Rankin. All rights reserved.
Although SIBA has modified when appropriate for a bookseller audience, the majority of prompts and resources come directly from the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge created by Food Solutions New England (FSNE), a regional collaborative network organized to support the emergence and continued viability of a New England food system that is a resilient driver of healthy food for all, racial equity, sustainable farming and fishing, and thriving communities. We are so grateful for their extraordinary work creating this program and making it available to other organizations.
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