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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 1.Direct force or competition. Winner takes-all 2.Indirect manipulation of the rules to shape the outcome 3.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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