Beyond Anti-Black Racism Training to Transformational Action: The Kit for Centering Black Youth Wellbeing (84985)
Session Chair: Chanel Herbert
Thursday, 14 November 2024 14:00
Session: Session 3
Room: (1F) Sant Sebastià
Presentation Type:Workshop Presentation
In 2020, the death of George Floyd sparked countless demonstrations about Anti-Black Racism globally. Since then, there has been an increase in courses and workshops about anti-Black racism - what it is and how to recognise it in its different forms. Four years later, there’s a lot of knowledge about ABR without a roadmap showing how to convert that knowledge into action. How do we move forward with meaningful conversations? What actions can be taken to cultivate practices and alliances that challenge, disrupt and combat systematic anti-Black racism?
Anti-Black racism work is a continuous journey of transformation that requires ongoing reflection, learning, and unlearning. During this interactive workshop, we will be using our Call-In-Cards with the themes Black Youth Voice, Black Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing, Intersectional Identities and Allyship to have some of those meaningful conversations by centring critical self-reflexivity as the source and impetus to connect understandings of anti-Black racism to anti-Black racism action. The Call-In-Cards foster dialogue by encouraging the identification of deep-seated assumptions without being called out, and the development of actions for centering Black youth wellbeing.
When we ‘call-in’ rather than ‘call-out’, we invite ourselves, colleagues, and peers into a conversation that draws attention to bias, prejudice, microaggressions, and other forms of discrimination as well as power and privilege to facilitate learning, growth, and change. These conversations require gracious spaces that are supportive and nonjudgmental. More importantly, critical self-reflexivity is always an action-focused project, never still and only useful when followed by thoughtful, transformative action.
Authors:
Uzo Anucha, York University, Canada
Chanel Herbert, York University, Canada
Maria Pineros, York University, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Uzo Anucha is currently a Professor in the School of Social Work at York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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