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How often do you form suspicion towards strangers? Do you have implicit bias? Take this test to find out: http://bit.ly/1nsczDd 

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Implicit bias lies within us like a tickling time bomb. Take your first step to erase your bias by acknowledging it: http://bit.ly/1nsczDd.

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Watch another piece of our dance project with DFacesRace and HEWMAN: The Rescue. This GivingTuesday, GIVE a helping hand and RESCUE humanity from implicit bias.

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Another piece of our dance project with DFacesRace and HEWMAN: Are you just passing by? Or are you imposing implicit bias on others? Take this test to #eRacebias: http://bit.ly/1nsczDd

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Flashback Friday to our project with Dallas Faces Race and Hewman Collective

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Detrimental Influences: Visualizing Redlining’s Impact in Dallas

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On July 8 over a hundred educators, public health researchers, fair housing advocates, students, and others drawn together by the Dallas Faces Race partnership participated in a community feedback meeting. Researchers from the Kirwan Institute on Race and Ethnicity and Children's Hospital led the meeting, with support from our college. I'd spent the previous day introducing the Kirwan researchers to various of the archives, and archivists, in town. Unlocking the strangeness and specificity of Dallas to new friends through the stories and artifacts preserved in those places made for a very satisfying day.

The Kirwan team is based out of Ohio State and leading a group of students there this fall through an urban planning policy course focusing in part on the intersection of race, inequality, and public policy in Dallas. The above is a sample of the work they're producing, and it's already powerful, sobering stuff: they've put the Home Owners Loan Corporation risk map at the center of it, pinning the evaluator's notes to the relevant neighborhoods--explicitly devalued in direct proportion to the amount of people of color and other "detrimental influences" identified in their block-by-block surveys (you can see a complete version of a story map and slides around this sort of history in Cleveland at the Kirwan website). The meeting was to share this initial work and ask for directions for research that would be meaningful and helpful for the people already doing social justice work in Dallas.

We're at early stages at determining the exact form outputs and partnerships will take, and I'll be free to speak more about those details as things become more concrete. There are so many different routes for institutions and activists to connect with this material, I think; I'm eager to see what develops. Already I am delighted by the positive feedback and energy from the many community members who attended and have reached out since the meeting. They were so angry and alive to the power of this evidence, looking at places where people live shorter lives because their grandparents were locked out of capital, shaking their heads at the red polygons within whose borders all the big roads go, puzzling over unmapped places. It's confirming to see so many people come together around this tough, evocative material that visualizes the reality of policy impacts on people's ability to thrive.

Kicking off the morning with @DFacesRace partners discussing redlining in Dallas with @KirwanInstitute pic.twitter.com/7ceQllk90k

— Chantel (@followchantel)

July 8, 2015

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Saw #Selma a few weeks ago and will be seeing it again because it was just that good! If you're in #Dallas come out and watch it with the crew #dfacesrace #selmathemovie #dontbuythebootleg #support