Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

 

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UPDATE YOUR DE&I PLAYBOOK

by Joan C. Williams and James D. White

White Americans are finally starting to understand that racism is structural. The problem is not just a matter of a few bad apples, and it certainly won’t be solved by a few good conversations. To dismantle structural racism in our organizations, we must change our cultures.

“But how?” companies wonder. They have a chief diversity office. They’ve done bias trainings. They have employee resource groups (ERGs). They celebrate Black History Month. Why are their efforts not working?

Chief diversity officers (CDOs), bias training, and ERGs do not address subtle and persistent forms of bias. Four decades of studies show that white men have to prove themselves less than any other ...