Visit your favorite business or institution in your community (e.g., a coffee shop, gym, school, church, nonprofit office, library, retail store, or community center).
Create a 35-minute video that addresses the questions below using the assigned course materials to guide your analysis.
What to Include in Your Video
1. Context & Description (3045 sec)
- Identify the business/institution.
- Briefly describe what type of place it is and why you chose it.
- Share what you expected to observe regarding equity or inclusion.
2. Observation & Systems Thinking (1 minute)
Use Stroh (2015) to guide your observation:
- What patterns did you notice in how people interact there?
- What structures or rules seem to shape behavior (visible & hidden)?
- How does this place reinforce or challenge patterns of privilege or exclusion?
Key Idea from Stroh to apply:
Systems are not just physical; they are behaviors, mental models, and institutional structures.
3. Applying the Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist, Multicultural Institution (11.5 min)
Using the continuum handout:
- Where would you place this institution on the continuum?
- Is it actively anti-racist?
- Is it multicultural but not anti-racist?
- Is it somewhere in between?
- Give specific examples from your visit that support your placement.
4. Link to White Supremacy at Work Podcast (11.5 min)
From Decolonize Social Work Podcast Episode #4: White Supremacy at Work:
- How did the visit reflect or resist elements of workplace/organizational white supremacy culture?
- (e.g., perfectionism, individualism, defensiveness, power hoarding)
- What did you notice that either replicated dominant cultural norms or pushed back against them?
- How does this connect to your own lived experience or identity?
Podcast link (for your reflection):
5. Final Reflection & Action (3045 sec)
- What is one strength you observed?
- What is one area where the institution can grow in anti-racist practice?
- Suggest one realistic change that could move this business/institution further along the anti-racist continuum.
Submission Instructions
Upload your video via a link such as Canva, YouTube, Cardbox, etc.
Use clear examples & refer explicitly to course sources (name them in your video).
Cite these sources verbally or onscreen when you reference them.
Initial Video Post is Due Saturday,@ 11:59 pm EST.
Peer Responses
Respond to at least two classmates by Monday,@11:59 p.m. EST.
Resources:
White Supremacy at work:
White Supremacy Culture Characteristics:
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