Note: Please read the information below carefully it contains important details about the class format.
Fall Series Dates: March 3,10, 17, 24, 31 and April 7 all classes are from 2:30- 4:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Kalissa Scopes
Description: Unlearning Everyday Racism is all about helping white people get better at talking about race and taking action against racism. At the end of the class you will have learned how to build supportive white community, chosen a specific area of focus for your own work and identified your next steps. You will also have deepened your understanding of your own everyday racism.
The class content is geared toward providing white people with the tools they need to get better at talking about race and taking action against racism. This class is designed as caucus space. See below for more about caucus space. Additional opportunties for BIPOC folks is 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.
