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Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy: A Critical Analysis

This book explores the metaphor of the miner's canary to depict the warning signs of societal dangers affecting marginalized groups. It challenges zero-sum power structures and offers a critique of power-over strategies. The authors advocate for enlisting race to resist hierarchy and emphasize shared power and human agency to transform democracy. The text delves into the relationship between process and outcome, as well as gender dynamics within power structures. Learn how to apply these arguments and findings to diversity training manuals.

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Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy: A Critical Analysis

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  1. The Miner’s Canary:Enlisting race, resisting power,transforming democracy Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres

  2. “Race for us is like a miner’s canary… the canary’s distress signaled that it was time to get out of the mine….Those who are marginalized are like the miner’s canary: their distress is the first sign of a danger that threatens us all…”(p.11)

  3. Rethinking Conventions of Zero-Sum Power

  4. The three dimensions of power • Direct force or competition. Winner takes-all • Indirect manipulation of the rules to shape the outcome • Mobilization of biases or tacit understandings that operate to exclude or include individuals/groups in the collective decision-making or conflict.

  5. A Critique of Power-Over Strategies • Problems with the Individual-Access Model: First-Dimension Rules • Problems with Outsider/Insider Dynamics: Second-Dimension Rules • Loss of an Outsider Role: Third-Dimension Problems

  6. What are the authors trying to argue? • How do the authors try to explain the argument? • Do the authors assume the “white, middle-class woman” norm? • What are the strengths and weaknesses of the argument? • How can we apply the authors logic and/or findings towards a diversity training manual?

  7. Enlisting Race to Resist Hierarchy

  8. The Affirming Power of Struggle • A reconceptualization of the meta-narratives of power over • A commitment to sharing power in ways that are generative, that build from familiar settings, and that emphasize human agency within an organized community, and… • A willingness to engage with internally embedded hierarchies of race and class privilege

  9. Power-With

  10. Laboratories of Democracy

  11. Challenging Embedded Hierarchies

  12. The Relationship between Process and Outcome

  13. Gender and Power-With

  14. What are the authors trying to argue? • How do the authors try to explain the argument? • Do the authors assume the “white, middle-class woman” norm? • What are the strengths and weaknesses of the argument? • How can we apply the authors logic and/or findings towards a diversity training manual?

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