Caprice D. Hollins - Inside Out: The Equity Leaders Guide to Undoing Institutional Racism

Caprice Hollins brings years of experience and nuance to her work guiding a wide range of organizations towards greater racial equity. In this practical and engaging handbook, she shares her expertise, taking readers from preparation to follow-up, at the personal, group, and institutional levels. In so doing, Dr. Hollins provides organizations an invaluable resource.

Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author, White Fragility: Why Its So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism

A brilliant tool! Dr. Hollins masterful instructional style gives us the necessary insight, wisdom, and compelling information to influence our understanding, shift organizational behavior, and inform our path to racial healing.

Debra Robinson Baker, MA, organizational development practitioner, equity and social justice instructor

This is an excellent resource for anyone engaged in trying to move an organization towards equity and justice. The practical advice, examples, suggestions, and guidelines provide a toolkit for organizational and community change. Do the exercises, learn from the examples and youll have what you need to jump right into the work. As Hollins writes this work...is about learning so we can take action to make change. This book is essential for your racial equity work.

Paul Kivel, educator, activist, and author, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

This book is filled with wisdom and a wealth of information born out of years of extensive, hard-earned experience. I couldnt think of a more qualified author than Dr. Caprice Hollins. A practical resource and foundational toolkit, Inside Out is for every person committed to the work of racial justice, equity, and inclusion. It is a must-read for anyone who is tired of organizations pimping diversity and is ready to do the real work of dismantling institutional racist practices so all people can thrive. I highly recommend it!

Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, author, Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now

Dr. Hollins has created an invaluable resource for those seeking knowledge and skills on how to actively engage in the field of social justice. The book is accessible, personal, engaging, and informative. Those committed to social change will leave the book invigorated and better prepared for the vital work Hollins calls us all to do.

Eddie Moore Jr., PhD, Founder/President, The Privilege Institute

An accessible, practical, and generous guide, Inside Out takes the guesswork out of building an anti-racist organization.

Michelle MiJung Kim, award-winning author, The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change

This is a great guidebook for anyone engaging in anti-oppression work. Caprice shares how her personal experiences have led her to this work and uses past research to help readers understand the ways that structural inequities exist in the United States. Inside Out provides a plethora of strategies to navigate barriers and challenges that arise when engaging in DEIB work, and invites readers to develop a necessary framework to guide them in anti-oppression work.

Janice Gassam Asare, PhD, anti-racism consultant, writer, educator

THE EQUITY LEADERS GUIDE TO
UNDOING INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

CAPRICE D. HOLLINS

Copyright 2023 by Caprice D. Hollins. All rights reserved.

Cover design by Diane McIntosh.
Cover images: iStock.

Printed in Canada. First printing October 2022.

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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

Title: Inside out: the equity leaders guide to undoing
institutional racism / Caprice D. Hollins.

Names: Hollins, Caprice D., author.

Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220390339 |
Canadiana (ebook) 20220390347 | ISBN 9780865719811 (softcover) |
ISBN 9781550927740 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771423700 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Racism in the workplace. | LCSH: Diversity in the workplace. | LCSH: Organizational change. | LCSH: Corporate culture.

Classification: LCC HF5549.5.R23 H65 2022 | DDC 658.30089 dc23

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To the parents, families, and friends of Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Alton Stirling, Trayvon Martin, Walter Scott, Atatiana Jefferson, John Crawford, Renisha McBride, Sandra Bland, #sayhername, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and so many more Black women, men, and children whose lives were tragically taken from us. #Black Lives Matter.

Yes, All Lives Do Matter

I knew it when

the doctor first placed you in my arms,

your life mattered

I knew it when

you spoke your first words cook, cook, eat, eat

I knew it when I sent you off to school

I knew it when the police threw you to the ground

as you attempted to enter the mall

I knew it when

security was called because someone

thought you were breaking into your own car

I knew it when they

shot and killed you while playing with a toy gun

in the park, and at the store, at a stop light,

while walking, and riding your bike

I knew it when they took your life

in your grandmas backyard

I knew it when they

mistook you for a burglar

I knew it when you went for a jog

I knew it when

they put you in a choke hold,

I knew it when you cried out,

Please, I cant breathe.

What gets us into this work? What keeps us in it when the tasks of liberation toward equity are so arduous? Reading this book made me like and appreciate Dr. Caprice D. Hollins even more. She has undertaken a personal, practical, and vital approach to working with race and justice. As a clinician, consultant, educator, and well-known expert in working with ethnically diverse populations, Dr. Hollins has managed to bring forth a leadership framework, strategies, and sustainability in this invitational book that favors the beginnings, rather than endings, of conversations. This is not a set of instructions toward simplified solutions, rather a path to authenticity which is how people and organizations manifest solutions.

The idea that people and institutions are too intransigent to change in the direction of liberation tries to interrupt potent anti-racism and anti-oppression. While there is no denying that facing not-ready faces full of contempt due to underlying fear of loss of comfort is most tiring, Dr. Hollins is one of the new voices unwilling to be daunted and unwilling to wait until all conditions are perfectly met. She brings us hard-earned wisdom revealed in her own authentic discoveries of what structural racism and systemic inequality really are and offers her elegant answers to seemingly impossible questions. This book invited me into humility and reignited my commitment.