Whiteness, anti-Blackness, and building solidarity via collective action
Friday, June 26, 2020 and Friday, July 3, 2020
9AM - 12 PM EST
Description
As we seek ways to maintain beloved community and redress social injustice, the need for a deeply personal understanding of our complicity with unjust social systems reveals itself to us. This 2-part webinar series empowers participants to explore, confront and recalibrate personal racial fictions. Interactive presentations contextualize sociological insights into whiteness and antiblackness and provide useful strategies for individual and collective action for addressing interpersonal biases and structural inequalities. The training will offer proven evidence-based strategies for countering antiblack racism and create space to learn from one another successful ways to promote respect, inclusivity, and enhanced social cohesion.
This program, specially designed for the LPJ community, comprises 2 web-based training workshops scheduled for 3 hours each. The webinars are simultaneously self-contained and build on one another. Webinar topics include Encountering Whiteness, Understanding Anti-Blackness, and Building Solidarity via Collective Action.
Cost is $500 per person with a sliding scale available for those who need it. Max number of participants is 10.
Learning outcomes
Participants can expect the following learning outcomes:
Identify fundamental characteristics of whiteness
Explain white supremacy and white supremacy culture
Identify how whiteness reproduces itself in institutional/organizational settings
Understand blackness as a structural location
Explain the form and function of anti-blackness
Develop individual and collective strategies for combatting whiteness and anti-blackness at home, work, and in communities
I am a sociologist, critical race, gender, and sexualities scholar, and social justice advocate who has been leading and facilitating workshops and seminars since 2012. My teaching imparts knowledge that drives self-reflection and I help learners find the power within them to creatively bring a more just world into existence. As a public intellectual, my published works on culture, race, immigration, gender and sexuality have appeared in academic books and journals, and other media platforms. I have given dozens of public lectures, been invited to contribute to panels and radio shows, provided trainings, and facilitated workshops transnationally. I hold a PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.