Day 2: Historical Foundations of Race
DAY 2 Of YWCA Spokane’s 14-Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge
Thank you for dedicating time, space, and energy to your own personal deepening and understanding of concepts related to race, power, privilege, and leadership.
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Vielen Dank, dass Sie diese Herausforderung annehmen! If this is your first day of joining us on this 14-day challenge, welcome. If you are back for more after our first day of the challenge, awesome! We are glad you are here. Each weekday from Tuesday, June 8th through Friday, June 25th, YWCA Spokane will send diejenigen, die sich für unsere Herausforderung anmelden E-Mails mit der Aufforderung, sich Zeit zu nehmen, um sich über Rassengleichheit und soziale Gerechtigkeit zu informieren.
Wir ermutigen alle, mit Freunden über das Gelernte zu sprechen, es in sozialen Medien zu teilen mit #ywcaEquityChallengeund nehmen Sie sich nach jeder Herausforderung Zeit, über Ihre persönlichen Erkenntnisse nachzudenken. Reflexionsprotokoll. Denken Sie darüber nach, Teil unseres Facebook-Gruppe für Rassen- und soziale Gerechtigkeit um das Gespräch online fortzusetzen und mit anderen in Kontakt zu treten.
DAY 2: historical foundations of race
When we say “race” what are we talking about? Race has no biological meaning or significance. Race does, however, have a great deal of social significance in everyday life and what opportunities are available to us. Social scientists call the term race a “social construct,” that is, it was invented and given meaning by human beings. It is a trait or set of traits—skin color, hair texture, the shape of one’s eyes—that is used for allocating power and distributing society’s material benefits and burdens.
From the earliest moments in our history, racial group identities granted access to resources and power to those who were “white” while excluding those who were “other” legally, politically, and socially. Attempts to label this systemic categorization a science, such as the Eugenics movement, have been debunked as it has been made clear that the leaders of this movement had no scientific basis for their research. Racial ‘science’ instead falsely blamed minority groups for the consequences of systemic racism, attributing the cause of inequality to genetics, ignoring social and environmental conditions. This race-based system of power and privilege continues to provide false justification for present and past actions such as the enslavement of Africans, the taking of Indigenous lands, the limits set on Asian & Latin American immigrants, and forced sterilizations.
Wenn Sie haben…
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Watch this video that unpacks the origins of race as a social construct. |
Und | Read dieser interaktive Artikel from the The National Museum of African American History and Culture. |
Und | Zuhören dieser Podcast featuring prominent journalist and researcher, Chenjerai Kumanyika, that takes a deep dive into the history of race and racism. |
tägliche Reflexion
Wenn Sie die heutige Herausforderung gemeistert haben, nehmen Sie sich einen Moment Zeit, um über die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse nachzudenken. Wie haben Sie sich bei der Herausforderung gefühlt? Was haben Sie gelernt? Haben Sie nach der Herausforderung etwas an sich selbst bemerkt? Erwägen Sie, dieses neue Bewusstsein mit einem Freund oder einer Gruppe zu teilen, um Ihr Verständnis der Informationen zu vertiefen. Erwägen Sie, Ihre Reflexionen im untenstehenden Tagesprotokoll zu verfolgen oder sich unserem anzuschließen Online-Facebook-Gruppe um den täglichen Austausch über die Challenge-Themen untereinander zu fördern.
Herausforderungsreflexionsprotokoll
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