Dr. Bailey Thomas on "Towards a 'More Perfect Union': Race, Failure, and Social Progress"
LFPL's At the Library Series
English - September 26, 2022 11:33 - 112 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBooks Arts Education library libraries author culture history information education news politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This class discusses how our fear of failure ultimately impedes collective efforts in working towards establishing a racially equitable society. Many people find discussions about race to be extremely fraught and divisive, which is usually expressed as a fear of “saying the wrong thing”. This discomfort that arises when thinking and talking about racial inequity and injustice, I propose, arises from a collective social failure to be sensitive and attentive to racial privilege and oppression.