The Strategy Card Deck

How do you deal with stressful racial encounters?

Strategy Cards (White): Strategy Cards can be used to learn new racial coping strategies we can use in our daily lives. Strategy Cards can also be used to examine the racial coping strategies we already use when we use them, and why or use them. Understanding why we use specific racial coping strategies is as important as the strategies we select.

The strategies we use are connected to our racial identity, our power and presence within a community, our level of racial stress, and our emotional well-being. We may employ certain coping strategies because we have not learned other options.

Use the reflection questions at the bottom of each Strategy card to process how different racial coping strategies influence our feelings and the world around us. Use the reflection questions to examine why we use these strategies.