Wednesday, February 27, 5-6:30 PM in Research Commons 2/3, please join us for to increase our individual and collective skills to respond with compassion effectively to racial microaggressions
Are there specific situations in class, practicum or elsewhere in your life when you heard or experienced racial microaggressions, did not respond, and later wished you had engaged with the speaker? What inhibited you from responding? More importantly, what skills and mindsets would strengthen your confidence and commitment to respond to racial microaggressions?
Bring specific examples from your life. We’ll mutually explore practical strategies to interrupt racial microaggressions. Leave with an increased commitment and skills to interrupt racial microaggressions.
This session is for any SSW community member wanting to strengthen skills to interrupt racial microaggressions.
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Advance notice for our open-to-all students Wednesday, March 6 meeting, 5-6:30 PM in Research Commons 2/3:
Racial identity development: a process to increase capacity for anti-racism work
“When we see strong, mutually respectful relationships between people of color and Whites, we are usually looking at the tangible results of both people’s identity processes.”
—Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria?”
A deep understanding of racial identity development increased one’s capacity to effectively work with others against racism. Our beliefs and attitudes, our commitments, and the actions we undertake differ significantly depending upon where we are developmentally in our own racial identity development.
This session is open to all persons who want a keener understanding of their current racial identity developmental phase, and who wish to map out next steps for themselves in the developmental process.
If you have time to review before coming the brief attached article, “Models of Racial Identity,” great. If not, please come anyway.
Here’s the article: http://www.diversitycelebration.com/models-of-racial-identity/
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Both events sponsored by ARWAG, Anti-Racism and White Ally Group.
The Anti-Racism & White Allyship Group (ARWAG) is a democratic collective that serves as a supportive space and resource for students, faculty, and staff seeking to analyze racism and white privilege in an effort to make classroom space more productive for all.
Our Goals:
• Simultaneously work with and challenge the administration to promote anti-racism as a high priority
• Provide support and education for individuals working to be self-critical of their roles within racism
• Promote equity by holding white students, faculty, and staff accountable to their counterparts of color
• Increase awareness and knowledge regarding racism and its impacts on social work practice
Archives of ARWAG, including information about our formation, reference articles for persons wanting to work against racism, PPT’s from presentations about ARWAG, are at this google site:
https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/anti-racism-and-white-allyship-group/
Previous winter quarter Anti-Racism and Learning White Allyship events, from most recent to earliest, were:
February 20, Wednesday
We watched a conversation inspiring clip of Dr. Joy DeGruy, author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, describing a powerful example of ally behavior. The clip is at:
We discussed situations in our lives where we can act to interrupt racism. We also worked with a handout by Maurianne Adams on Becoming an Ally.
February 15, Friday
We held an organizing/planning meeting.
February 7, Thursday
We watched and discussed “Creating Conversations: the role of allies as agents of change,” a a 27 minute video of Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian, long-time white anti-racist activist. The clip is at:
January 30, Wednesday
We shared successes and challenges in our efforts to be effective allies against racism. Participants shared real life experiences of racism, brainstormed both strategies to counter internal dialogues that keep us silent and complicit as well as lots of strategies to actively intervene against racism.
January 24, Thursday
We previewed the 14th annual White Privilege Conference, coming to Seattle April 10-13 of this year. Clips from previous Conferences were shown and a panel of past presenters and participants shared what they learned at the Conference, talked about how they apply what they learned to undo racism, and answered questions about the Conference.
James Barrett DeLong, University of Washington SSW faculty School of Social Work
4101 15th Ave NE
Seattle, Wa. 98105
office 206-685-3173; room 238-C; delongj@uw.edu; fax 206-543-1228
SAVE THE DATE: 14th Annual White Privilege Conference The Color of Money: Reclaiming Our Humanity April 10-13, 2013 – Seattle, WA http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/
