Accountability
Accountability is a keystone of racial equity work. Accountability, as used in this website, refers to creating processes and systems that are designed to help individuals and groups to be held in check for their decisions and actions and for whether the work being done reflects and embodies racial justice principles. Accountability in racial equity work is about consistently checking the work against a set of questions: How is the issue being defined? Who is defining it? Who is this work going to benefit if it succeeds? Who will benefit if the work does not succeed? How are risks distributed among the stakeholders? How will a group know if its plan has accounted for risks and unintended consequences for different racial and ethnic groups? What happens if people pull out before the goals are met? Who anointed the people and groups being relied on for the answers to these questions? Who else can answer these questions to guide the work?
- Accountability: Who Benefits from Our Work?
- Community Accountability within the People of Color Progressive Movement
- European Dissent Accountability Statement
- Racial Justice Organizing: Organizations Holding Elected or Community Leaders of Color Accountable
- SPARC Accountability Statement
- Statement of Appreciation and Accountability
- Social Service or Social Change? Who Benefits from your Work
- Accountability and White Anti-racist Organizing
- No More “Allies”
- White Folks: Act Up Accountably, Notes from the SURJ Action Team
- Protocol and Principles for White People Working to Support the Black Liberation Movement
- Building Accountable Relationships with Communities of Color: Some Lessons Learned
- Passing it on: Reflections of a White Anti-Racist Solidarity Organizer
- Calling In: A Quick Guide on When and How
- Silence is Violence and Inaction Gives Traction to White Supremacy
- Accountability
- Accountability in a Time of Justice
- Partnership & Accountability Circle Terms of Reference
- We need to make proactive accountability regular praxis in organizing and beyond
- Transparency Defined
- Community Accountability Council
- We Are the Rising Majority: Movement Building in the Time of the Coronavirus Crisis: Angela Davis & Naomi Klein
