1. RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN COMMUNITY-BASED WORK E. L. HUNTER, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY STEANS CENTER

2. OBJECTIVE OF WORKSHOP Participate and learn how to engage in safe, honest, and constructive dialogue around assumptions on race and racism as it relates to community-based work, ourselves, our campuses and our communities. This workshop will include an overview of structural/systemic racism, how it relates to community-based work, and how we’re all linked to this system. This workshop will focus on practical strategies for engaging with race and racism in the context of community-based work.

3. SHARED TERMINOLOGY Definition of racism “the product of centuries of systematic exclusion, exploitation, and disregard of racially defined minorities. It was the combination of relationships – prejudice, discrimination, and institutional inequality – which define the concept of racism at the end of the 1960s” -Omi & Winant (1994, Racial Formation in the United States)

4. SHARED TERMINOLOGY Definition of racial project “A racial project can be defined as racist if and only if it recreates or reproduces structures of domination based on essentialist categories of race.” -Omi & Winant (1994, Racial Formation in the United States)

5. SHAKTI BUTLER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9QBnPK6Yg

6. ACTIVITY 1: POWER AND IDENTITY

7. ACTIVITY 2: SCENARIOS Scenario 1 Friends/peers reacting negatively when hearing about which neighborhood you work in Questions to consider  What is the problem? How is it connected to race, racism, classism, any other isms?  What is your position within the problem?  What can you do to be an agent of change?

8. ACTIVITY 2: SCENARIOS Scenario 2 Kids wondering about skin color differences Questions to consider  What is the problem? How is it connected to race, racism, classism, any other isms?  What is your position within the problem?  What can you do to be an agent of change?

9. ACTIVITY 2: SCENARIOS Scenario 3 Conflict with people in neighborhood in which you work Questions to consider  What is the problem? How is it connected to race, racism, classism, any other isms?  What is your position within the problem?  What can you do to be an agent of change?