PRE-TASK SESSION 3:
Task 2:
How does this relate to your understanding of faith / religion in the context of inclusivity
How does this impact your practice
It alters my expectation of faith as something that in itself experiences evolution, that there are practitioners critically engaging with faith / religion / spirituality. It is a reminder that the practice of faith and it also relates to the texts of the blogging exercise which speak of faith / religion / spirituality as a practice of community as well as individual.
Spirituality / faith / religion can be a way of practicing freedom: what does it look like? Taking agency over practices. It makes me think that just because someone is engaging in religious practice I should not assume anything else about them, and that their practices of faith can have crossovers with every, any, none or all of their other areas of interest. I can also actively invite those practices in learning environments
Task 3:
What are your observations?
How does this relate to your understanding of whiteness and white fragility?
What steps do you feel you can take to implement change
Reflecting on a lived experience and emerging from discontent // work coming from a fire inside
Words / linguistic decisions being very conscious and them being important
Epistemologies of ignorance
White fragility / whiteness hiding behind other things, such as unintentionality instead of being addressed.
Who gains from unconscious bias?
Being used as the acceptable phrase to describe racism by white people
What does unconscious bias training?
Everyone passes
Learns the words
You just learn to assert when there is unconscious bias
Unconscious bias is implicit bias
Try not to use the term unconscious bias but call it by its name: racism
Un: denial, an absence, a lack of, it denies the possibility of racism
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Critical and contemporary approaches to spiritual practices
Engaged spirituality
Working for community rather than individuals
Social transformation
Healing
Liberation as a process
There is no inferior
Intersectional
Using Buddhism as a self reflective practice that makes space for the uncomfortable
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Who’s who test
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011)[1] was an American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. Bell worked for first the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 school desegregation cases in Mississippi.
After a decade as a civil rights lawyer, Bell moved into academia where he spent the second half of his life. He started teaching at USC Law School, then moved to Harvard Law School where he became the first tenured African-American professor of law in 1971. From 1991 until his death in 2011, Bell was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law,[2] and a dean of the University of Oregon School of Law.[3]
Bell developed important scholarship, writing many articles and multiple books, using his practical legal experience and his academic research to examine racism, particularly in the legal system. Bell questioned civil rights advocacy approaches, partially stemming from frustrations in his own experiences as a lawyer. Bell is often credited as one of the originators of critical race theory.[4]
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. In addition to her position at Columbia Law School, she is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Coincide the term intersectionality
Patricia J. Williams (born August 28, 1951) is an American legal scholar and a proponent of critical race theory, a school of legal thought that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system.[1]
Heidi Safia Mirza
Heidi Safia Mirza (born 1958)[1] is a British academic, who is Professor of Race, Faith and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London,[2] Professor Emerita in Equalities Studies at the UCL Institute of Education,[3] and Visiting Professor in Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE).[4] She has done pioneering research on race, gender and identity in education, multiculturalism, Islamophobia and gendered violence, and was one of the first black women professors in Britain
Professor Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Professors Delgado and Stefancic are prolific scholars who have published, separately and together, over 150 journal articles and 30 books, many of them award-winning. Professor Delgado is a leading commentator on race in the United States, having appeared on PBS, NPR, ABC, and Canadian NPR. Professor Stefancic has written extensively about social change and legal scholarship. The two shared a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency in 1993 and another in Bogliasco, Italy in 2001 to write books about civil rights and law reform.
This month I interviewed Charles W. Mills about his new book, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. Mills is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. He works in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. His first book, The Racial Contract(1997),
Robin Jeanne DiAngelo (née Taylor; born September 8, 1956)[1] is an American author working in the fields of critical discourse analysis and whiteness studies.[2][3] She formerly served as a tenured professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University and is currently an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington. She is known for her work pertaining to “white fragility“, an expression she coined in 2011 and explored further in a 2018 book entitled White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.
William F. Tate IV is an African-American social scientist and higher education administrator. In May 2021, he was selected as president of the Louisiana State University system, and chancellor of the flagship school in Baton Rouge. He is the first Black person to hold the position(s), and the first to head any school in the Southeastern athletics conference.[1]
-CRT starting from a legal setting
-subtler forms of racism gaining ground
-building on previous movements
-legal indeterminacy
-race as social construct
-the ability for splinter groups that work together within a larger movements (diversity of voices, intersectional movement)
-racism is ordinary and benefits certain groups of people
-shifting stereotypes at different moments in time according to white needs (labour etc)