New Report: The Role of Race in Community Building
Posted by on November 26, 2004
[posted from Public Education Network newsblast]
VITAL DIFFERENCE: THE ROLE OF RACE IN BUILDING COMMUNITY
A new publication and website resource provides insight into the powerful knowledge that practitioners offer for understanding the role of race and racial identity in building community and sustaining democracy. This report rebukes the popular notion that the path to building democracy requires ignoring the reality of race. Though there is no question that racial exclusion is a persistent and powerful force that continually shapes people?s lives, there are debates about how community-building practitioners should confront race in their work. How and when should race be engaged? Should race be named, and if so how? How should race be dealt with when working across race lines?
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