Coming Soon – Asian American Challenges Toward Racial Justice
Asian American Challenges Toward Racial Justice is a two day workshop for people who are a part of, live in, or work with Asian American communities and invested in eliminating racism and racial inequities in our systems. Using a race analysis, this workshop unpacks how racism uniquely disempowers Asian Americans, undermines cross-racial solidarity, and keeps a structural arrangement of power in place. Over the two days, participants will also explore the social, political, cultural, and economic ramifications resulting from the way that Asian Americans have been racialized and how they impact Asian American identity.
Asian American Challenges Toward Racial Justice can serve as a complement to existing workshops that ground people in understanding racism as historically and structurally rooted such as the Racial Equity Institute’s Phase I workshop or as an entry point for Asian Americans to understand how racism impacts their communities.
Measuring Racial Equity: Asian Americans
Measuring Racial Equity: Asian Americans is a three hour presentation for people who are a part of, live in, or work with Asian Americans communities and who are interested in eliminating racism and racial inequities in our systems. Using data and research, this presentation reveals the often overlooked impacts of structural racism on Asian Americans communities by using the following approaches:
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Stark disparities within the Asian American community can be revealed once we disaggregate systems level data based on ethnicity and many other factors as we look across outcomes on income, poverty, health, housing, and more.
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When matched along similar profiles and qualifications as other racial groups, Asian Americans appear to experience relative disadvantages compared to White Americans—similarly and differently from other communities of color.
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During/after major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans can be met with negative outcomes and increased vulnerability during turbulent periods similarly and differently to other communities of color.
Measuring Racial Equity: Asian Americans can serve as a complement to existing data & research focused presentations that ground people in understanding racism as historically and structurally rooted such as the Racial Equity Institute’s Groundwater presentation or as an entry point for Asian Americans to understand how racism impacts their communities.
Internalized Racism: Asian Americans
A storytelling experience and space for Asian Americans to reflect on the unique ways that our communities have internalized our cumulative experiences in a society structured by race and its impact on organizing. This offering is recommended for Asian Americans who have experience with structural approaches to understanding and organizing against racism and who have engaged with workshops such as Asian American Challenges to Racial Justice or the Racial Equity Institute’s two day Phase I workshop.