Racial Justice & Equity: Antiracism Resources

Fellow BCA Global members, supporters, and visitors:
Welcome to BCA Global. Thanks to you, we have come a long way from our humble beginnings back in 1998. Diversity (still a familiar buzzword today) was not a well-known subject in the culinary, foodservice and hospitality industries at the time of our inception. Despite the level of attention given to the topic of diversity today, there is still plenty of action that needs to be taken to help move this forward.
Our top priority remains to connect young professionals of color with industry professionals, while simultaneously focusing on the border goal of penetrating areas of the industry still very much void of diversity. We aim to develop a global consciousness based on cultural diversity, heritage, health and racial equity in all respects of the food space and the many industries that are connected. Society in general, and in the culinary and hospitality industry in particular, can be greatly impacted if we pursue this approach for advancing diversity. Now is the time to have the conversations, both familiar and especially the ones that are uncomfortable. This is probably the most important challenge facing the industry and society today. Your decision to support BCA Global and its mission will help contribute to greater this greater understanding the mindfulness of diversity now and in our future.
Alex Askew
BCA Global President/CEO

The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS. NBJC’s mission is to end racism, homophobia, and LGBTQ/SGL bias and stigma. As America’s leading national Black LGBTQ/SGL civil rights organization focused on federal public policy, NBJC has accepted the charge to lead Black families in strengthening the bonds and bridging the gaps between the movements for racial justice and LGBTQ/SGL equality.

YWCA’s commitment to racial justice and civil rights runs deep. Since the 1800s, Black and Native women have been providing leadership in YWCA’s movement and, because of the leadership of women of color, in 1946 YWCA began working for integration throughout the organization, adopting an “interracial charter” that established that “wherever there is injustice on the basis of race, whether in the community, the nation, or the world, our protest must be clear and our labor for its removal, vigorous, and steady.” That work culminated in the creation of YWCA’s One Imperative in 1970: To thrust our collective power towards the elimination of racism, wherever it exists, by any means necessary.

Since 1986, Crossroads has been providing organizing, training, and consulting to institutions striving to dismantle racism. This includes analyzing internal policies and procedures that maintain white power and privilege, and helping to create an intervention strategy to dismantle oppressive systems. A key strategy for institutional organizing is creating internal antiracism teams. Through this work we also strive to create and strengthen structures of accountability to People and Communities of Color and other socially oppressed groups, both within the institution and in the wider community.

(1) Deepen your understanding of the history and deep-rooted nature of anti-Black racism in the U.S.
(2) Understand your personal relationship to white supremacy and anti-Black racism.
(3) Reflect on the personal impact you have on the Black people in your immediate environmental context.
(4) Develop a personalized plan to enhance the safety and wellness of Black students, staff, faculty, alums, and community members through your academic roles.
(5) Take action that includes time, energy, financial resources, and accountability until Black liberation is realized.

At the Urban Institute, we examine how structural racism continues to disproportionately segregate communities of color from access to opportunity and upward mobility by making it more difficult for people of color to secure quality education, jobs, housing, healthcare, and equal treatment in the criminal justice system.
For decades, our researchers have called attention to the role of race and racism in our public and private institutions and offered evidence-based solutions for how to address these inequities. Our scholars will play a crucial role as we continue to elevate the public discourse around race and racism in America.
The Urban Institute is the trusted source for unbiased, authoritative insights that inform consequential choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States. We are a nonprofit research organization that believes decisions shaped by facts, rather than ideology, have the power to improve public policy and practice, strengthen communities, and transform people’s lives for the better.

America Healing, launched in 2010, is an effort to put the belief in a false human hierarchy based on physical characteristics and the racial and structural inequalities it creates behind us, by first putting it squarely in front of us. America Healing is a strategy for racial healing toward racial equity, and is designed to raise awareness of unconscious biases and inequities to help communities heal. In support of America Healing, we have created this comprehensive and interactive racial equity resource guide that includes practical resources including articles, organizations, research, books, media strategies and training curricula aimed at helping organizations and individuals working to achieve racial healing and equity in their communities.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal innovator and entrepreneur Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

The work of social and behavioral scientists is crucial in helping to dismantle mechanisms of discrimination, oppression, and violence and create a radically improved society. Here you’ll find a range of resources based on social and behavioral science for researchers, instructors, students, policymakers—as well as the general public— to help you educate, inform, research and learn.

At Taylor & Francis, we stand for human dignity and tolerance in all its forms. We have no place for racism. No place for discrimination, xenophobia or disrespect of any kind. These are our truths. And through our purpose we will continue to fight for all truths that matter to humanity.

We can’t change the world on our own, but we are willing to put expertise at the fingertips of those that share our desire to do so. Knowledge drives progress and one modest action we are taking is opening up validated scholarly content on racism and its prevention, on social and economic justice, on related educational resources and on their effects on society as a whole.

The more we know, the more effectively we can act.

We have curated some of our relevant books and journals content in this area – much of it free to view or open access – and our editorial teams will continue to collaborate with scholars and experts to organize and publish an expanded reading list on this microsite.

What is antiracist research?
Whereas racist research historically has posed the question “What is wrong with people?” antiracist research now asks a different question, a better question: “What is wrong with policies?” Our belief is that framing research on race and racism around antiracist questions leads to antiracist narratives, effective policy solutions, and impactful advocacy campaigns that cut to the root of racial inequality: racist policy.

Structural racism in the United States has been defined as the “normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal—that routinely advantage whites while producing cumulative and chronic outcomes for people of color.”

This resources identifies literature that links the social construction of Whiteness and its intentional or consequential impact on structural racism within the United States’ local food movement. It is focused on recent peer-reviewed and gray literature* materials that are national, regional, and local in scope that included significant references.

The seventh edition contains 279 sources, including 10 new videos and 46 new journal citations.

Notably, a significant number of these new additions discuss food sovereignty within the frame of structural racism in the food system. In this current edition, our video curation includes recordings from webinars that focused on the intersection of food systems and racial equity.