University of Washington Human Resources

Live online session

Class content will be delivered via live Zoom session(s) with supplemental materials.

Description:

Throughout this country’s history, there have been anti-racist white people who stood against the dehumanization, enslavement, and exploitation of Africans, and the genocide and theft of land of indigenous people. They were white advocates, allies, abolitionists, accomplices, and co-conspirators. Despite being grossly outnumbered by racist, immoral, hateful, and pernicious white people, they decided to fight for full freedom, equality, and inclusion during a violently hostile epoch that was savagely oppressing Black and indigenous peoples.

This course reminds us of those brave, bold, and courageous white people who, during the last five centuries, embraced their humanity and risked, or even gave, their lives to advance freedom, liberation, and self-determination for Black and indigenous peoples.

Today’s racially-charged turbulent times offer new opportunities across all sectors and throughout every area of people activity (personal, professional, and community networks) for white advocacy, allyship, abolitionism, accomplices, and co-conspirators to take actions that finally establish political, economic, and judicial equity and inclusion for Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC).

Throughout this course, participants will develop or expand their understanding on the process of becoming and evolving, from advocate to ally, abolitionist to accomplice, and ultimately, becoming a co-conspirator. These roles all have varying power relational dynamics among BIPOC, and thus varying racial equity impacts across areas of influence.

Instructor: Greg Taylor