The Business of Race: How to Create and Sustain an Antiracist Workplace—And Why it’s Actually Good for Business

CHAPTER 14

REIMAGINING THE FUTURE

The Power of Narrative

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

URSULA K. LE GUINWhite American science fiction author¹

The stories we tell shape the world we live in. The stories we tell to ourselves, to our children, to one another, to consumers, in our history books, and to the world. Stories can entertain. But always, they’ve been humanity’s tools of instruction for adhering to societal norms. To reshape our society, to reimagine the future, we must expand old narratives and introduce new ones. We must evolve into a collective where multicultural voices—historically underrepresented groups along with the dominant group—collaboratively ...