Advancing Black leadership
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  • Introduction and guidance
  • What is a badged course?
  • How to get a badge
  • Introduction
  • 1 Defining power
  • 2 Power over bodies
    • 2.1 Power over movement
    • 2.2 Power over space
    • 2.3 Power over life
  • 3 Power over minds
    • 3.1 Colonialism, racism and the mind
    • 3.2 Gaslighting
  • 4 This week’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Week 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 Faces of power
    • 1.1 Decision-making power
    • 1.2 Non-decision-making power
    • 1.3 Ideological power
  • 2 Bases of Power
  • 3 Powerful solidarity
  • 4 This week’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Week 2
  • Introduction
  • 1 Power-resistance
    • 1.1 Defining resistance leadership
    • 1.2 Constructive dissent and destructive consent
    • 1.3 Radical resistance leadership
  • 2 From resistance to power
    • 2.1 Mimicking the oppressor
    • 2.2 Resisting resistance
    • 2.3 Stuck in opposing
  • 3 This week’s quiz
  • 4 Summary of Week 3
  • Introduction
  • 1 Mapping forms of resistance
    • 1.1 Continuums of resistance
    • 1.2 Four Is of resistance
  • 2 Resistance as distance, persistence and difference
    • 2.1 Resistance through distance
    • 2.2 Resistance through persistence
    • 2.3 Resistance through difference
  • 3 Resistance under corrupt conditions
  • 4 This week’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Week 4
  • Introduction
  • 1 Local public services and their bureaucratic apparatus
    • 1.1 The power of professionals
  • 2 Local professional power
    • 2.1 Engaging with Local professional power
    • 2.2 Minorities’ engagement with local professional power
  • 3 Holding local public service professionals accountable
  • 4 Challenging professional power through internal complaint procedures
  • 5 Holding professionals accountable through professional and oversight bodies
  • 6 Professional power and Public Sector Equality Duty
    • 6.1 Equality Act 2010
    • 6.2 Northern Ireland Act 1998
  • 7 This week’s quiz
  • 8 Summary of Week 5
  • Introduction
  • 1 Understanding the power of businesses and corporations
    • 1.1 Power – businesses and corporations
  • 2 Historical legacy of corporate power on Black people
    • 2.1 Choosing between racial equality and racial equity
  • 3 Mediating corporate power through civil society institutions
    • 3.1 Civil society organisations
  • 4 Mediating corporate power through public institutions
    • 4.1 Redress for victims and witnesses of discrimination
  • 5 Mediating corporate power through individual action
    • 5.1 Boycott brands
    • 5.2 Resignation
  • 6 This week’s quiz
  • 7 Summary of Week 6
  • Introduction
  • 1 What is campaigning?
    • 1.1 Mobilising human resources
    • 1.2 What is a constituency?
  • 2 Electing leaders
  • 3 Applying pressure to leaders
    • 3.1 Internal vs external campaigning
    • 3.2 Strategy and tactics
  • 4 This week’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Week 7
  • Introduction
  • 1 Organising as building power
    • 1.1 The membership organisation
    • 1.2 Campaigning to build the organisation
    • 1.3 Leadership and organising
      • 1.3.1 Organic leadership by individuals
      • 1.3.2 Distributed leadership by a collective
  • 2 Workplace organising
    • 2.1 Mapping your workplace
    • 2.2 Moving to a campaign
  • 3 Community organising
    • 3.1 Mapping your community
    • 3.2 The organising drive
    • 3.3 Moving to a campaign or just getting to work?
      • 3.3.1 Self-help and mutual aid
      • 3.3.2 Advocacy
      • 3.3.3 Direct action
  • 4 This week’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Week 8
  • Tell us what you think
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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