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Unlearning Circle on White Supremacy Cultural Characteristics
July 11, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Free
This Unlearning Circle is the first in a multi-month series that will explore how people, and white people in particular, have been racialized and socialized in white supremacy culture. We ground these circles in the work of Tema Okun and others, such as Kenneth Jones, and Daniel Buford of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, who have outlined these characteristics. Our discussion will focus on how these aspects shape our cultural norms: how we think and act, and how they show up in our institutions and our communities. This month we will be discussing the characteristic of Sense of Urgency.
We begin this series with a reflection of white folks’ internalized sense of urgency because, over the past month, many white people are “waking up to racism”. With so many white people urgently wanting to become “anti-racist”, how can we, as white folks, harness our energies to support the racial justice work led by communities of color who have been fighting white supremacy for generations?
UWSA relies heavily on the Principles and steps of Undoing Racism as developed by The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB). This series is based on the PISAB principle of Identifying and Analyzing the Manifestations of Racism: Individual acts of racism are supported by institutions and are nurtured by the societal practices such as militarism and cultural racism, which reinforce and perpetuate racism.
This is an opportunity for white identifying people to explore white supremacy culture and our role and responsibilities in undoing racism. We welcome and recognize the gift of the presence of any People of Color who choose to join us. Please join us for one or more of the circles in this series!
Suggested Resources
(Recommended reading, listening, and/or viewing to prepare for our conversation)
Resources:
White Supremacy Culture, from Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001; http://cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/dr-culture.html
openDemocracy: White Urgency to End Racism: Why Now?
Metro UK: The Emotional Impact of Watching White People Wake up to Racism in Real Time
Further reading:
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
white beloveds: #BlackLivesMatter is not a trend, it’s an invitation to our own freedom too
https://plantedmoredeeply.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/white-beloveds-blacklivesmatter-is-not-a-trend-its-an-invitation-to-our-own-freedom-too/
https://plantedmoredeeply.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/white-beloveds-blacklivesmatter-is-not-a-trend-its-an-invitation-to-our-own-freedom-too/
