Workshop: Teaching About Race to Improve Racial Justice

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Lawyers and clinic students remain stymied
about how to raise issues of racial bias day to day in both the litigation and
negotiation settings, and their own workplaces. Following up on the Habits of
Cross-Cultural Lawyering, we plan to present principles, techniques, and
analytical frameworks for the concrete work of addressing racial bias in our
daily practice.
This two-part workshop, presents in the first
session the principles, techniques and analytical frameworks including how the
Habits can be used more effectively to raise issues of race.  Using an interactive style, with case
examples, role-play and discussion, we will demonstrate some techniques for use
in classroom discussions and elicit other successful strategies used by
participants for talking about race.  We
will also explore how implicit bias functions in practice to shape our work
with clients and interactions with decision makers.  In the second session, we will use a Rounds
structure to identify successful teaching techniques that teachers can employ
to discuss race in supervision or classroom settings including discussion of how clinical courses in teaching and
performing work, can or are implementing specific initiatives directly out of
the wake of Ferguson, Garner, Rice, et.al.
In debriefing this session,
we plan to tie the substance of the rounds back to the principles, techniques
and analysis in the first session.