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What Does it Mean to Be an Anti-Racist Institution?

Explore forms of racism, racial justice, and the role of anti-racism in education. Learn from experts and discover the importance of systemic change for racial equality.

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What Does it Mean to Be an Anti-Racist Institution?

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  1. What Does it Mean to Be an Anti-Racist Institution? Mayra Cruz, ASCCC Area B Representative Nathaniel Donahue, ASCCC At-Large Member Elizabeth Imhof, Santa Barbara College 2019 Spring Plenary November 7, 2019

  2. Session Outcomes

  3. Topics

  4. Activity

  5. The Unequal Opportunity Race

  6. The Language of Anti-Racism Education What is race? What is racism? Forms of racism: • Interpersonal Racism • Internalized Racism • Institutional Racism • Structural Racialization Racialization Racial Justice

  7. Defining Anti-Racism Education “In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” Angela Davis "Anti-racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies and practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably." - NAC International Perspectives: Women and Global Solidarity Anti-racism examines the power imbalances between racialized people and non-racialized/white people. These imbalances play out in the form of unearned privileges that white people benefit from and racialized people do not -McIntosh, 1988; See definition of White Privilege/White-Skin Privilege Anti-racism is the practice of identifying, challenging, and changing the values, structures and behaviors that perpetuate systemic racism (Ontario Anti-Racism Secretariat). Anti-racism is an active way of seeing and being in the world, in order to transform it. Because racism occurs at all levels and spheres of society (and can function to produce and maintain exclusionary "levels" and "spheres"), anti-racism education/activism is necessary in all aspects of society. In other words, it does not happen exclusively in the workplace, in the classroom, or in selected aspects of our lives.

  8. Diversity training: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  9. The Insidious Nature of Racism “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.” Audre Lorde

  10. Beginning of the insidious nature of racism

  11. Racism is dynamic and ever-changing. The critical aspect of racism that we must address today is the accumulation and incorporation of long-standing racialized practices into all of our social and economic structures. Structural racialization is a system of social structures that produces and reproduces cumulative, durable, race-based inequalities.

  12. Racialized outcomes do not require racist actors. Focusing on individual instances of racism can have the effect of diverting our attention from the structural changes that are required in order to achieve racial justice. Faculty and all employees need to explicitly and implicitly challenge all manifestations of racism and racialization in our work and in our organizations.

  13. The Morality Dilemma

  14. How do we work to dismantle racism at our predominantly white college?

  15. Anti-Racism Practice

  16. Reflections What is a takeaway from our discussion today?

  17. Resources • Anti-Racism Action Plan. Retrieved from https://www.monroecc.edu/inclusion-diversity/plans-policies/anti-racism-action-plan/ • Anti-Racism Defined Retrieved from http://www.aclrc.com/antiracism-defined • Carnevale, Anthony & Strohl, Jeff. Separate & Unequal: How Higher Education Reinforces the Intergenerational Reproduction of White Racial Privilege. Retrieved from file:///C:/Users/Mayra%20Cruz/Downloads/SeparateAndUnequal%20(1).pdf • Deangelo, Robin. (2018) White Fragility: Why It's So Hard to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press: Boston. • Alexander, Michelle. (2012) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness • Oluo, Ijeoma. (2019) So You Want to Talk About Race. Seal Press: New York.

  18. Thank you and appreciations

  19. For more information contact: Elizabeth Imhof imhof@sbcc.edu Mayra Cruz cruzmayra@deanza.edu Nathaniel Donahue donahue_nathaniel@smc.edu

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