This guide to resources on Antiracism is intended to be a collaborative project among UDC students, faculty, and staff that will add more materials and references over time. Please email ask@udc.libanswers.com with recommended additions or edits to this guide!
Antiracism is the practices and policies that actively oppose racism. Those who practice antiracism identify and reject racism in their selves and institutions.
The goals of antiracism are to name racism where it exists and to actively work to change systems, behaviors, policies, and actions that promote racism and support white supremacy.
Institutional Racism - Institutional (or systematic) racism is the predominant and cultural practices and policies that exist within an institution, organization, or group that - intentionally or not - work to promote favored groups of persons while repressing minoritized persons. Examples include written policies like dress codes or traditions like rewarded office behavior. Institutional racism vastly supports white supremacy and white persons.
Bias - Bias is the prejudice to be in favor of or against something in a way that is considered unfair. Bias may be unconscious (like assuming a woman is a nurse and not a doctor) or conscious like using stereotyped hate speech.
Microagressions - Microagressions are the everyday actions that communicate negative attitudes toward a group of persons. This includes verbal actions, like asking where someone is from, or nonverbal actions, like following a person around a store to monitor their actions. Microagressions, intentionally or not, communicate a social and racial hierarchy creating hostile environments.
Privilege - Privilege is the power and unfair advantage one group of persons has over another through power, wealth, tradition, education, or other means. Privilege comes from the historical exploitation and oppression of minoritized groups. White privilege is the predominant version of privilege. It is the economic and societal benefit that white persons receive based on their skin color.
White Fragility - White fragility is the discomfort and defensiveness that white persons display when confronted by any level of information about their history of racism, racial inequality, and injustice. The negative reaction shuts down any meaningful conversation and privileges the feeling of a white person over the injustices suffered by minoritized persons. This reinforces existing racial hierarchies and systematic racism.
The Center for Diversity, Inclusion & Multicultural Affairs (CDIMA) is dedicated to promoting social justice through the development of cocurricular programs and educational activities that enhance the personal development, success, and collegiate experience for historically marginalized students at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC).
It is committed to fostering an equitable and inclusive campus culture that intentionally values the personal, intellectual & academic growth of all students while prioritizing the experiences of international, undocumented, LGBTQ and 1st-generation UDC students. The CDIMA strives to provide programmatic efforts, experiential learning opportunities, and resources necessary for students to transform their thinking and enhance their knowledge and competency in a variety of cultural contexts.
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