The Anti-Racist Organization Workbook : Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace

Dr Shereen Daniels’ The Anti-Racist Organization Workbook: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace sets out a clear way of understanding how systemic racism operates, why well-intended efforts don’t work, and what it means to address it seriously, in practice. This workbook picks up from that point and moves into precise application. It does not revisit the theory or introduce new language. Instead, it takes the principles set out in the book and applies them directly to your context, and the specific ways these issues show up in your organization. Structured around the Four-Factor RACE Model™, it moves you through a deliberate process that enables you to: recognise how the problem shows up, so you move beyond general awarenessanalyse how it is produced and explained, so you can see how current practices, decisions and explanations perpetuate the problemcommit to a small number of actions, so activity shifts from transactional effort to clear, transformative change with defined ownershipexamine the conditions required for those actions to lead to meaningful and sustained change, irrespective of leadership transitions, periods of pressure, and changing external conditions The focus is not on statements of intent, zero tolerance approaches, commitments, or diversity, equity and inclusion activity, but on the structural conditions that influence how decisions are made, what is tolerated, what is challenged, what is avoided, and what patterns become visible when you know where to look and what to look for. Applied consistently, this establishes a shared method for interrogating how work actually happens in practice, making it genuinely possible to move beyond repeated, transactional activity that addresses the symptoms, and towards transformative action and accountability that addresses the underlying root causes. You already know there is a problem. You consistently see the impact. This workbook gives you a structured way to examine what is happening, why it is happening, and what it would take within your organization to change it.