Confident Conversations About Race and Racism
Learn to engage in meaningful discussions about race and racism, developing skills to recognize, understand, and combat racial discrimination.
Learn to engage in meaningful discussions about race and racism, developing skills to recognize, understand, and combat racial discrimination.
This course equips learners with the knowledge and skills to confidently discuss race and racism. It explores the concepts of race and racism, their historical and contemporary manifestations, and strategies for being anti-racist. The curriculum covers topics such as the construction of race, structural racism, whiteness, privilege, and intersectionality. Participants will learn to recognize and address various forms of racism, including microaggressions and systemic discrimination. The course emphasizes critical self-reflection and provides practical guidance on having productive conversations about race and taking anti-racist action in different contexts.
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What you'll learn
Understand the concepts of race and racism and how they are constructed and experienced
Recognize different manifestations of racism, including structural racism and microaggressions
Develop racial literacy and understand the language of anti-racism
Examine personal biases and privileges through critical self-reflection
Identify and address barriers to anti-racist action
Learn practical strategies for having confident conversations about race and racism
Skills you'll gain
This course includes:
316 Minutes PreRecorded video
2 assignments
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There are 6 modules in this course
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of race and racism, focusing on developing the skills and knowledge necessary for engaging in confident conversations about these complex issues. The curriculum is structured into five main modules, covering the concepts of race and racism, anti-racism strategies, barriers to anti-racist action, and practical approaches to having productive conversations. Throughout the course, learners will gain insights from diverse perspectives and lived experiences, examining how race and racism manifest in various contexts, particularly in Australia. Key topics include the construction of race, structural racism, whiteness, privilege, intersectionality, and microaggressions. The course emphasizes critical self-reflection and provides practical guidance on recognizing and addressing racism in everyday situations. By the end of the course, participants will have developed a toolkit for anti-racist action and the confidence to engage in meaningful dialogues about race and racism.
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Module 1 · 45 Minutes to complete
Module 1: What is race?
Module 2 · 49 Minutes to complete
Module 2: What is racism?
Module 3 · 1 Hours to complete
Module 3: Being anti-racist
Module 4 · 57 Minutes to complete
Module 4: What gets in the way
Module 5 · 2 Hours to complete
Module 5: Having confident conversations
Module 6 · 2 Hours to complete
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Instructor
Advocate for Cultural Competence and Social Justice
Dr. Gabrielle Russell serves as the Assistant Director and Education Lead at the National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) at the University of Sydney, bringing extensive experience from various sectors, including non-government organizations, politics, business, church, and higher education. She is dedicated to enhancing cultural competence from a non-Indigenous perspective, focusing on transformative learning and collaboration. With a longstanding commitment to human rights and social justice, Gabrielle's previous work emphasized Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice and policy issues. She has developed education and advocacy programs addressing racism, Whiteness, colonization, Indigenous theology, and inculturation. Her PhD research, titled From Pumpkins to Property Management: Developing the Organisational Capacity of the Jubal Aboriginal Corporation (2011), explored community enterprise development in Northern NSW. Gabrielle's current teaching and research interests include race and racism, critical pedagogies, service learning, and cultural competence, with ongoing projects aimed at preparing students for service learning in Aboriginal community-controlled organizations and creating online modules to promote cultural competence learning.
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