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November 2021 UWSA Unlearning Circle
November 13, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
November’s UWSA Unlearning Circle will explore the People’s Institute principle: Analyzing Power
As a society, we often believe that individuals and/or their communities are solely responsible for their conditions. Through the analysis of institutional power, we can identify and unpack the systems external to the community that create the internal realities many people experience daily.
We have been brainwashed to assign responsibility for what happens to people in our society solely to individual choices. Racism is ascribed to racist feelings and actions on the part of individuals, instead of the systems and institutions that were set up to create racism, and to re-create racism over and over again. Please join us in this month’s Unlearning Circle, where together we will look at how racism was, and is “done”, shining light on the power exercised by legal, economic, and social institutions to oppress BIPOC communities.