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AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIntroductionChapter 1. Breaking the Silence: Ushering in Courageous Conversation About Race Racial Achievement Disparities and Other Systemic Racial Inequities Three Critical Factors The Courageous Conversation Strategy and ProtocolPART 1. PASSION: AN ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIPChapter 2. What's So Courageous About This Conversation? Courageous Conversation A Difficult ConversationChapter 3. Why Race? The Problem of the Color Line Racial Disparity Race as a Factor in Education and Beyond Dealing With Race Establishing Common Language Around Race Do We Have the Will?Chapter 4. Agreeing to Talk About Race Racial Consciousness Four Agreements of Courageous ConversationPART 2. PRACTICE: THE FOUNDATION OF RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIPChapter 5. The First Condition: Getting Personal, Right Here and Right Now Personal, Local, and Immediate The Impact of Race on My Life Degree of Racial Consciousness Racial Consciousness Versus Racial UnconsciousnessChapter 6. The Second Condition: Keeping the Spotlight on Race Isolating Race Unpacking RaceChapter 7. The Third Condition: Engaging Multiple Racial Perspectives Social Construction of Knowledge Surfacing Critical PerspectivesChapter 8. The Fourth Condition: Keeping Us All at the Table Interracial Dialogue Creating Safety The Courageous Conversation CompassChapter 9. The Fifth Condition: What Do You Mean By "Race"? A Brief History of Race A Working Definition of RaceChapter 10. The Sixth Condition: Let's Talk About Whiteness White Is a Color White Privilege White Is a Culture White Consciousness Whiteness as Examined in the Five Conditions White Racial Identity DevelopmentPART 3. PERSISTENCE: THE KEY TO RACIAL EQUITY LEADERSHIPChapter 11. How Racial Equity Leaders Eliminate Systemic Racial Disparities Invisibility Versus Hypervisibility Understanding Students of Color and Indigenous Students Within a White School Understanding Systemic White Racism The Injustice of Gradualism and Incremental ChangeChapter 12. Exploring a Systemic Framework for Achieving Equity in Schools A Vision of Equity Systemic Racial Equity TransformationChapter 13. Courageous Conversation as a Strategy for Achieving Equity in Schools Personal Racial Equity Leadership Individual Teacher Racial Equity Leadership Whole-School Racial Equity Leadership Systemic Racial Equity LeadershipReferences and Selected BibliographyIndex