J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Endia Beal
Episode #17 Summary:
Endia Beal creates a teaching tool by initiating dialog to address cultural profiling and implicit bias experienced in the workplace. Joined in conversation with her publisher, Michelle Dunn Marsh, of Minor Matters Books, they discuss their collaborative process of funding, designing and marketing this first monograph.
Episode Notes
From her own experience of objectification and othering in corporate culture, Beal innovates entry points to spotlight the experience of ‘double consciousness’ as described by W.E.B. Du Bois, currently referred to as code switching, by compiling the stories of 65 Black women. Also collaborating with white students and colleagues she probes differences in human experiences, exposes assumptions, advances awareness, and increases diversity maturity.
In this book group, Endia Beal and Michelle Dunn Marsh discuss, among other things:
Questioning conformity and “similar-to-me” bias
Humanness transcending race and gender
Investment in scholarship to place more representative stories in the historical canon
The challenges and reality of fear as a maker/creator
The impact of others believing in your work
Bringing subjective truths to conversations on race and gender
Supporting the people who create platforms for conversations on diversity, inclusion and equity
Mentorship and community in the creative process
Resources
Young, Black, Female and Envisioning Corporate Life
Seeing being Seen - link to be a co publisher
Girl Trek and Black Women’s History Bootcamp
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - by Emmanuel Acho
My Grandmothers’ Hands - by Resmaa Menakem
Published by Minor Matters Books