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accountability (those most affected by the outcomes should lead design processes) and ownership (communities should materially own design processes and their outputs).
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
Receiving feedback that our behavior had a racist impact (challenge to white racial innocence) • Suggesting that group membership is significant (challenge to individualism)
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
We must become undisciplined. The work we do requires new modes and methods of research and teaching; new ways of entering and leaving the archives of slavery, of undoing the “racial calculus and . . . political arithmetic that were entrenched centuries ago” (Hartman 2008, 6) and that live into the present.
Christina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
antiracist policy
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
I was honored to be a part of The Ruckus Society during this labor, this awakening, watching over a transition born of frustrations and critiques as well as an instinct that something better was possible.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Design justice practitioners choose to work in solidarity with and amplify the power of community-based organizations.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
In these pages, I am intentionally bringing academics into conversation with experiential experts, to show the patterns of aligned interest and learning happening across the language barriers that exist between us.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
directly confronting racial and gendered inequalities was a key strategy to eradicate them. As she carefully explained in her 1965 Freedomways
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Finally, the teachers used this interaction as an opportunity to increase racial divides rather than bridge them and to protect their worldviews and positions.