A People's Pathway to Equity
A Learning Guide
Welcome to
A People’s Pathway to Equity: A Learning Guide
Across the following four chapters, you’ll explore insights gathered by the 400 Years of Inequality Coalition from over five years of learning and organizing together. Here, you will engage with the ideas, tools, and activities that are most critical to understanding and dismantling inequity in the United States.
These key concepts and multimedia activities will introduce you to people from a range of places and backgrounds who have boldly embarked on the pathway to equity.
Throughout your journey you will:
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Explore the ongoing ecology of inequality in the U.S.
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Define moral fusion coalition
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Understand the Seven Sins of Inequality
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Discover what you are FOR
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Start the path toward collective recovery
This site was designed by 400 Years of Inequality coalition members, an interdisciplinary group of scholars, activists, artist, and educators.
Use this guide to facilitate conversations about structural inequality and practices of community organizing and coalition building. These tools can be used in the classroom, at work, or in your community.
Getting Started
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To navigate forward and backward use the "Next" and "Back" buttons at the bottom of each page.
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To move between chapters, use the “Chapters” navigation at the top of each page.
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Clicking the 400 Years of Inequality logo will always return you to the home screen.
Getting Grounded
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1. The 400 Years Timeline
It is tempting to view history as a description of what happened rather than what is. In order to form a moral fusion coalition and dismantle America’s long-running ecology of inequality, you must know its history.
Explore the 400 Years Timeline with its many reflections on these concepts.
Ready?