Are you an antiracist educator?

What is Antiracism?

Anti-racism is the “active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies and practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably” (National Action Committee on the Status of Women International Perspectives: Women and Global Solidarity).

Antiracism In Schools

Being a culturally responsive educator allows you to value the diversity around you and becoming an antiracist educator propels you to fight against policies and practices that make it challenging for you and others to be your authentic self in an environment free from white supremacist culture.

Consider everything from the curriculum you teach, the school events you hold. who makes decisions, and hiring practices. do they reflect a commitment to antiracism or do they uphold white supremacist culture?

Becoming an Antiracist Educator: As A White Person

Adapted from the Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh, Ph.D., LPC

  • Taking responsibility for your power and privilege

  • Acknowledge your feelings about multiculturalism

  • Cultivate a desire to learn from diverse perspectives and grow your ability to support others from across lines of difference

  • Actively challenge practices and policies that uphold white supremacist culture

Becoming an Antiracist Educator: As a Black, Indigenous, and Person of Color

Adapted from the Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh, Ph.D., LPC

  • Recognizing class differences between different people of color based on their proximity to whiteness

  • Understand all people of color are struggling in some way under White supremacy

  • Challenge internalized White supremacy (i.e. respectability politics, myth of the model minority, etc.)

  • Actively challenge practices and policies that uphold white supremacist culture

The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify it and describe it—and then dismantle it. -Ibram Kendi

Becoming an antiracist educator allows us to dismantle racist structures in our schools that continuously harm the students we should be supporting.