Name
Fighting Racism within Academic Antiracist Spaces
Date & Time
Thursday, April 15, 2021, 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Norka Blackman-Richards Kerri-Ann Smith
Description

The past several years have seen the burgeoning of a large anti-racism training industry. However, there is growing concern among BIPOC in the academy that much of this training reproduces white supremacist values. This is specifically evident as we look at the privileging of white academics within antiracist work such as in the case of Robin DiAngelo. And additionally evident as we look at the long line of white and POC administrators tasked with organizing antiracist work in academic spaces that have not explored their own positionality as it pertains to race, institutional hierarchy and systemic racism and thus reinforce white dominant culture.  How do we go about the important work of operationalizing antiracist values in a way that avoids this dynamic? Members of the CUNY Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Incubator will take the audience through collective naming process of signs of white supremacy within DEI and antiracist processes, and share tools to help uphold antiracist values and culture borrowed from the Racial Equity and Liberation Group, and the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond.

Session Type
Workshop