1. Transforming Ourselves and Society to Achieve Belonging
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Unraveling Justice: Taking Action
DATE:
January 21, 2019
PRESENTER:
john a. powell, Director, Haas Institute
AUTHORIAL SUPPORT:
Haas Institute

2. Dr. King’s Legacy is a Call for Belonging

4. “Othering,” defined…
We define othering as a set of processes, structures, and dynamics that denies full humanity and belonging across any of the full range of human differences. Othering and marginality can occur on a group basis or at the individual level.

5. Dimensions of othering.
Dimensions include but are not limited to, sex, religion, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, and skin tone.
class
race
ethnicity
ability
religion
skin tone
sexuality
age

6. Leadership, Meta- Narrative Empathy, belonging, inclusion
As diversity grows, so does anxiety.
Increase in diversity
Breaking
Fear, anger,
othering
Leadership, Meta- Narrative
Empathy, belonging, inclusion
Increase in Anxiety
Increase in anxiety
Bridging

7. Narratives of Othering and Belonging
Breaking: When a group turns inwards and explicitly pushes away from other groups who are seen as dangerous or a threat
Bonding: Connecting to people like you in some important way
Bridging: Ties to people who are unlike you in some important way; stories, structure contact

8. Putnam’s types of social capital:
BREAKING
Social ties among an exclusive group who explicitly push away from other groups who are seen as dangerous or a threat.
BRIDGING
Social ties that link people
together with others across a cleavage that typically divides society. 
BONDING
Social ties that link
people together with others
who are primarily like them along
some key dimension. These are
genuinely easier to build than
bridging social capital.

9. Examples of breaking social capital:
rwandan
genocide, 1994
BREAKING
Social ties among an exclusive group who explicitly push away from other groups who are seen as dangerous or a threat.
white nationalism

10. Examples of bonding social capital:
family
BONDING
Social ties that link
people together with others
who are primarily like them along
some key dimension. These are
genuinely easier to build than
bridging social capital.
neighborhood

11. Examples of bridging social capital:
lgbtq
Social ties that link people
together with others across a cleavage that typically divides society. 

12. “I don’t see race. I am colorblind.”
THE LEFT’S RESPONSE TO OTHERING —
“I don’t see race. I am colorblind.”
“All lives matter!”
“You & I are human. We are the same.”

13. The opposite of Othering is not “saming.”
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society

14. It is belonging.
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society

15. Belonging – Moving towards structural inclusion
The current circle of belonging is narrowed by structures. The “size” of the circle is dependent upon institutional arrangements, structures, and systems.
We must build the circle, to have more people belonging and benefiting from collective concern and care: this is the vision of equity and this is the practice of equity.
Belonging is a powerful force to dissolve barriers that defines in and out groups by recognizing shared goals, values and dependence on each other.
Belonging connotes something fundamental about both how groups are structurally positioned within society as well as how they are perceived and regarded.

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