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Racial Justice at Work
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Racial Justice at Work

by Mary-Frances Winters, The Winters Group Team
February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
7h 54m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Content preview from Racial Justice at Work

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Disrupting the Racist Narrative in Marketing and Advertising

MEGAN LARSON, EDD

Vice President, Marketing and Business Development

The Winters Group, Inc.

(she/her/hers)

Perception is reality, so if we are to change our perceptions, then we must change our reality.

—UNKNOWN

Systemic racism is perpetuated by a narrative created both deliberately and passively by cultural gatekeepers. Often these gatekeepers are driven by known prejudices, unconscious biases, and the demands of capitalism. They create stories and themes that reinforce racist and sexist ideas and fortify entrenched hierarchies of power that advantage dominant culture groups and further disadvantage marginalized people. The narratives created by cultural gatekeepers ...

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ISBN: 9781523003648