2020 Intro to Racism and White Privilege Webinar Course

The People’s School of DC 2019 “Introduction to Racism and White Privilege course” has been converted to a webinar format, that will be recorded and publicly shared, starting in July 2020. This is a FREE 24-class course on the many different forms of racism and white privilege in the US, specifically focusing on forms beyond the “explicit” and “easy to see”, through a multi-media lecture series presenting hundreds of anti-racism concepts, perspectives, strategies, resources, speeches, quotes, videos, books, articles, and ways to get involved in modern day efforts to dismantle white supremacy.

***Updated Format and Schedule***

• Due to recent limited capacity with everything going on in the world all live classes currently will be recorded instead and sent out to everyone registered and there will likely only only be one recorded class per month.
• Please register to receive each recording as they are ready and updates on when the course will return to live classes
• To view all classes already recorded please go to this link. https://peoplesschooldc.wordpress.com/intro-to-racism-and-white-privilege-webinar-recordings/

***If you don't see an email with a new class recording every 1-2 months check your spam folder. You if you see the email in your spam folder please mark it as not spam and/or add "noreply@event.eventbrite.com" and "peoplesschooldc@gmail.com" to your contacts. Feel free to email peoplesschooldc@gmail.com with any questions.

Types of Registration

Receive Free Webinar Recordings

• Anyone can sign up to receive the webinar recordings for free.  You only have to sign up once to receive all recordings and can cancel at anytime.

Monthly Cohorts (Suspended for now.  Just doing recordings Will try to restart live webinars soon)

Schedule

• Each group of classes are organized around central themes

***Schedule Updates:  Due to limited capacity 1 class a month will be recorded and sent out. But the class order should remain. ***

Theme: Systems and Internalizations

Classes

• Systems and Fragility
• Whiteness
• Internalizations and Bias

Theme: History of White Supremacy

Classes

• Colonialism and Capitalism
• US Foundations of White Supremacy
• Whitewashing US History

Theme: Solidifying Segregation

Classes

• Racial Segregation and School Choice
• Housing Discrimination, Banking, and Black Capitalism
• Racial Histories Not Taught in School

Theme: Strategic Racism

Classes

• Patriarchy and White Supremacy
• Rightwing Politics
• Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism

Theme: Mass Incarceration

Classes

• Rise of Mass Incarceration
• Prison industrial complex
• Policing

Theme: Modern Spatial Racism

Classes

• Gentrification & Affordable Housing
• Environmental Racism
• Food Justice

Theme: Xenophobia

Classes

• Anti-immigrant
• Latinx and Asian American Discrimination
• Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Palestinian

Theme: Confronting Racism

Classes

• Understanding Effects of Racism and Learning to Decolonize
• Strategies to Effectively Challenge Racism: 101
• Strategies to Effectively Challenge Racism: 201

Schedule is subject to change

• Please register or follow facebook.com/peoplesschooldc to receive updates or any schedule changes.

Full topic list for each class

• Go to https://peoplesschooldc.wordpress.com/2020-intro-to-racism-and-white-privilege-webinar-course/ for in depth topics/table of contents of each class

Supplemental learning opportunities

There will be pre-readings for each month of classes with discussion and homework opportunities for further learning on the 4th Wednesday of each month emailed to everyone who registers

Action Opportunities

This course is meant to supplement, not replace, taking action to dismantle racism.  Please visit these sites on how to get more involved in Greater DC area.

• Peoples School of DC: Local Trainings, Lectures, Activism
• Peoples School of DC: Local Social Justice Resources and Organizations

Teacher Bio

All the lecture classes in this course will be taught by Josh Singer with possible guest facilitators.  Josh spent 3 years after the 2016 election researching and creating the 2019 Introduction to Racism and White Privilege course and another year researching, improving, and converting the course onto an online platform. After growing up in a very white segregated Sundown town, Josh Singer has spent the last two decades of his life attempting to learn about his internalized whiteness and the systems of white supremacy he lives in, through various experiences from participating in dozens of anti-racism courses and initiatives, teaching high school history, studying in a history masters program, a decade of community organizing, managing several social justice projects and resource websites, working as a food justice advocate, and writing a weekly social justice column.

Feedback

All feedback on this course is welcome with gratitude.  Please email peoplesschooldc@gmail.com to share any feedback.

(Cover photo credit: Margaret Bourke-White)