Required Readings

Intercultural Communications in Your Life - Chapter 7
- This reading can help you discover the distinctions of groups and teams. You will learn how cultural variability influences each, respectively and how diversity is applied to how both groups and teams navigate issues.
- Supplemental resource from the publisher:
  - Chapter 7 presentation
Unstereotype Alliance Metric 2021 Key Findings
- This reading can help you discover inequities in advertising using the Unstereotype Alliance's open-access tool which measured over 314,000 ads across 70 countries, 3,300 brands and 251 categories to produce the following key findings in 2021.
Geena Davis Institute “Inclusive Advertising in Sweden - The Risk of Falling into the Stereotype Trap
- This reading explores a study which analyzed representation within top Swedish advertising campaigns that were nominated for prestigious awards over the course of six years (2015-2020), and the stereotypes that exist within them.

Media

The Talk by Proctor & Gamble
- (1m 0s): This award-winning two-minute commercial from Proctor & Gamble finds Black mothers speaking to their children about growing up in America. It addresses everything from racial bias and Western beauty standards to police brutality.
The Look by Proctor & Gamble
- (1m 43s): This 2019 video is another part of Proctor & Gamble's work to leverage their advertising power to dismantle bias and inequity.
I Am by Starbucks Brazil
- (2m 54s): A gripping video featuring members of the trans community describing who they are and how they want to be regarded.
At the Intersection of Culture and Context
- (32m 21s): This podcast from the prominent Cannes Lions organization discusses how creative fields such as advertising can be used to help advance equity, inclusion and justice.