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rp @wherechangestarted: antiracism work is interdisciplinary. Always has been. Always will be.
For the last few weeks, I have come under fire for speaking about *human behaviors* in my work as they relate to antiracism. It has been said that, without a background in psychology, there is no way my work could be my own and therefore, must be misappropriated knowledge from someone else. This is categorically untrue.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a theologian. W.E.B Du Bois was a historian and sociologist. James Baldwin was a novelist. Audre Lorde was a librarian. None of them were psychologist. Yet all of their words have informed the foundation of so many of our own today in one way or another.
Political scientists have been discussing political behaviors since it became a field of study. It is quite literally the job of campaign strategists and legislative analysts to know and understand how and why certain constituents (humans, btw) will respond to policy initiatives the way they do. That includes understanding and predicting their responses to racialized stimuli.
Things like “racial triggers” have been written about in law review articles regarding their impact on legal processes like voir dire, more commonly known as jury selection, since the 1980s. A jury is a flipping group of your peers (humans, btw). Meaning, lawyers and legal scholars have been talking about racial triggers as they relate human behavior since the 1980s.
Anyone with a background in those areas who understands that race is a political construct and that racism is systemic problem in need of a systemic fix, would be able to discuss antiracism from those perspectives of human behavior with ease. Because antiracism work is interdisciplinary and no one field of study has the monopoly over it and no one person can lay claim to concepts that have been developing long before any individual living today entered into this work. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
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rp @wherechangestarted: antiracism work is interdisciplinary. Always has been. Always will be.
For the last few weeks, I have come under fire for speaking about *human behaviors* in my work as they relate to antiracism. It has been said that, without a background in psychology, there is no way my work could be my own and therefore, must be misappropriated knowledge from someone else. This is categorically untrue.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a theologian. W.E.B Du Bois was a historian and sociologist. James Baldwin was a novelist. Audre Lorde was a librarian. None of them were psychologist. Yet all of their words have informed the foundation of so many of our own today in one way or another.
Political scientists have been discussing political behaviors since it became a field of study. It is quite literally the job of campaign strategists and legislative analysts to know and understand how and why certain constituents (humans, btw) will respond to policy initiatives the way they do. That includes understanding and predicting their responses to racialized stimuli.
Things like “racial triggers” have been written about in law review articles regarding their impact on legal processes like voir dire, more commonly known as jury selection, since the 1980s. A jury is a flipping group of your peers (humans, btw). Meaning, lawyers and legal scholars have been talking about racial triggers as they relate human behavior since the 1980s.
Anyone with a background in those areas who understands that race is a political construct and that racism is systemic problem in need of a systemic fix, would be able to discuss antiracism from those perspectives of human behavior with ease. Because antiracism work is interdisciplinary and no one field of study has the monopoly over it and no one person can lay claim to concepts that have been developing long before any individual living today entered into this work. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems