Note: Please read the information below carefully it contains important details about the class format.
Fall Series Dates: February 5,12,19, 26 and March 5 all classes are from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Facilitator: Shardé Nabors
Description: We will look at anti-racist work from a non-white lens. We will build community with coworkers with shared experiences and understand the way multiple identities shape unique experiences. Participants will explore racism, colonialism, colorism, lateral oppression and more. We will review terminology and history as well as learn tools for addressing and interrupting racism and overlapping oppressions in our daily lives.
The class will explore anti-racist work from a non-white lens. This class is designed as caucus space. See below for more about caucus space. Additional sessions are available here.
Why we caucus: to create space for people of similar racial identity (and experience) to openly participate in the work of undoing racism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy. Race is a social construct created to assign value to people based on arbitrary characteristics. Racism is a system of oppression that assigns power and privilege to whiteness, using Blackness as the fulcrum of white supremacy. Racial identities are not self-selected and are separate from ethnicity, nationality, and culture. It is possible to be read racially as white, while having non-European heritage and non-white relatives. While race is made up, it is used in a very real way. It is important that we understand our positionality within systemic racism, so we can be aware of the way it impacts us, whether to our benefit or detriment.
