1. The document discusses the need to think and talk about race in transformative ways to address racial disparities and promote social justice. It argues that race plays a critical role in social structures and outcomes. 2. It outlines four common frames used to minimize discussions of race and challenges the need to confront these frames. It also discusses how affirmative action addresses racial inequalities and the negative impacts of bans on affirmative action. 3. The document emphasizes the need for a transformative approach that changes societal structures, as opposed to just assisting individuals, to create fair access to opportunities.

1. Michigan Voice Race and the Movement Work Group Unity and Vision Retreat April 12, 2008 john a. powell Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Williams Chair in Civil Right & Civil Liberties, Moritz College of Law

3. Thinking and Talking about Race Transformatively

9. Framing

13. Implicit Assumptions, Frames & Race

23. Connection Between Housing and Schools High Opportunity Low Opportunity

25. Understanding of Disparities Present Extreme Persisting Absent Minimal Declining Explanations for Disparities Structural Historical Abnormal Individual Cultural Normal Solutions to Disparities Color-Conscious Color-Blind OPPOSE AA SUPPORT AA Color-blind/ Color-conscious Racism

26. Ex: Affirmative Action

31. Impact of the Bans

43. Next Steps Prescriptive Approaches

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