UPROOTING RACISM

Presentation files

Eric, Robin, and I will be doing a presentation on the project at NASPA Region 1 in November. Here are some files that we're using to help us plan for the presentation:

Here is the NASPA program proposal ...
Download program_proposal2.doc

The project manual ...
Download uprooting_racism_project_manual.doc

Reading list (to hand out to session participants) ...
Download uprooting_racism_reading_list.doc

Here is our presentation outline and to-do list ...
Download naspa_presentation_outline.doc

Here is the long version of the presentation (from July '05) ...
Download uprooting_racism__project_development.ppt

Here's the shorter version (for the Dean's Meeting and to be adapted for NASPA) ...
Download uprooting_racism__shorter_presentation.ppt

Additional files:
Teaser handout ...
Download uprooting_racism_handout.pub

Content for the Wesleyan ResLife launch page ...
Download launch_site.doc

Blackboard

So the project is finally up and running on the Wesleyan Blackboard system. If you are a member of the Wesleyan community, you can log-in and get full access. If you are not, then you'll still be able to preview the project via this link -- Uprooting Racism.

I have added a number of students and other staff as "Course Builders" and will be happy to add anyone else who may be interested in helping out.

Our next big steps are:
1. setting up a steering committee of staff and students
2. training ourselves as web discussion facilitators
3. finalizing the curriculum

the latest updates (read this stuff first!)

Here's the PowerPoint presentation that I will give this coming Tuesday to the ResLife professional staff.

It provides a good, some-what brief, description of the conceptual framework, goals, and proposed structures of the project.

Download uprooting_racism__project_development.ppt

And the following document is a more detailed project proposal. (The curriculum outlines and action project examples -- highlighted in yellow -- are still being worked on.)

Download uprooting_racism_project_manual.doc

PLEASE check them out and give me your feedback. We're close to launch and I'd like ideas -- specifically from student leaders!

three weeks from launch

Here is the closest thing to a finished product so far ...

Download uprooting_racism_project_manual.doc

Though it is still a work in progress, it basically serves as a project manual for Uprooting Racism.

Things that need to be fleshed out (everything highlighted in yellow in the document):
-- Curriculum activities and readings
-- "Action projects" for each section of the curriculum
-- Online discussion guidelines
-- Sample exercises

We will be using both Frontpage and Blackboard to design and launch the web-site.

We will also need to have an ad campaign (matching the design of the web site) ready by August 15th so that we can distribute it to ResLife staff and Orientation Leaders.

We also need to connect with various anti-racist student activists on campus and see if they are interested in helping serve as steering committee members ... or at least review the project manual.

notes from Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism

Here are notes from the book Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism.

Download teachinglearning_antiracism.doc

.. great ideas to incorporate in to our project ... but I'm beginning to think that a web-curriculum will have extremely limited results in moving White students toward an anti-racist identity. I am also sure, now, that any initiative must include a racially/ethnically heterogeneous group (that often splits in to caucuses of white students and students of color for small-group discussions but always rejoins for large-group discussions). More thoughts to come ...

NASPA Region 1 program proposal

Reading Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol Brunson Phillips's book Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism is giving me a lot of practical ideas for our project's approach and web-based curriculum.

I'm finishing up a program proposal to present our Uprooting Racism project at the NASPA Region 1 conference in November.

Here's the program abstract:
Download naspa_program_abstract.doc

Here's the program description:
Download naspa_program_description.doc

new links

I just found a few new useful and thought-provoking links.

First, I came across the Center for the Study of White American Culture which has some interesting White anti-racist resources. The center even hosts an online discussion and reading group that may serve as a great model for our web-based program! Check it out (you have to register first): http://www.wacan.org/

The next resource which I've found to be very interesting is Race Traitor. The authors of the site critique White anti-racist organizations for typically failing to recognize racism's ties to capitalism. The authors also support the radical deconstruction and abolishion of the White identity, as it is inextricably interwoven into racism. I've ordered the site's anthology to get a better understanding of the authors' ideas.

As with all of these sites and articles, I can't say that I agree with every authors' ideas and opinions, but it has all given me some great food for thought.

updates

So here's a more up-to-date and comprehensive version of the program objectives, key attitudes, methods, structures, and task list.

Download uprooting_racism_notes_july_8.doc

We will soon be overhauling the website ... or keeping the blogger site as a program-planning tool for the steering committee and facilitators and creating a new site for student use.

Readings for Curriculum

Now that there's more of a basic idea of what a curriculum might look like, I've started to gather readings for specific topics. Here are some below (in Adobe Acrobat):

Designing Anti-Racism Courses:

Download bell__designing_social_justice_education_courses.pdf

Download hardiman__conceptual_foundations_for_social_justice_course.pdf

Download kumashiro__theories_and_practices_of_antioppressive_educat.pdf

Download kivel__integration_and_tokenization.pdf

Facilitating Anti-Racism Courses

Download griffin__facilitating_social_justice_education_courses.pdf

Understanding White People's Role in Racism:

Download bonillasilva__color_blind_racial_stories.pdf

Download jensen__white_privilege_shapes_the_us.pdf

Download barrett__how_white_people_became_white.pdf

Understanding Our Cultural Histories:

Download okazawarey__personal_cultural_history_exercise.pdf

Defining What It Means To Be White:

Download dei__white_privilege_white_power.pdf

Download edler__distancing_behaviors_often_used_by_white_people.pdf

Download abolishthepoint.pdf

Download zmagazineinterview.pdf

Download lipsitz__positive_investment_in_whiteness.pdf

Download wildman__making_sense_of_privilege_visible.pdf

Download mcintosh__invisible_knapsack.pdf

Download wise__membership_has_its_privileges.pdf  

Overcoming Personal Racism:

Download kivel__being_allies.pdf

Download WPC5WhiteCaucus20040429.pdf

Download tatum__breaking_the_silence.pdf

Download feagin__confronting_ones_own_racism.pdf

Uncovering Institutional Racism:

Download loewen__racism_and_antiracism_in_u.S. History.pdf

Download menkart__the_institutionalization_of_racism_readings.pdf

Putting Anti-Racist Theory in to Practice:

Download dei__antiracism_theory_and_practice.pdf

Download omi__eracism.pdf

Download aal_moving_from_guilt_to_action.pdf

Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural Dialogue/Immersion:

Download tatum__embracing_a_crossracial_dialogue.pdf

Download cchandout.pdf

Please reproduce for your personal or educational use only. And please support these authors and scholars by purchasing the entire book.

If you've collected good readings, pass them along to me and I'll scan them and post them here.

(More articles to come.)

we have moved ...

Please go to http://uprootingracism.blogspot.com to see updates to this site. It will be easier for you to contribute to comments and other interactive functions of the site now that it has moved to blogger.