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Going to start a thread of the incredible statements coming from grad students about dismantling systemic racism and anti-Blackness in scholarly fields and departments. Please reply with statements you have seen as well!
I am very thankful to the mutual (tag yourself if you wish) who made sure I saw this thread and statement from UNT @Anthro4Equity https://twitter.com/Anthro4Equity/status/1271613679721517056
In a thread from @anarparikh, a statement from the @BrownAnthro grad students, contextualizing five clearly demands in the special responsibility of anthropologists to counter racism and colonialism everywhere in the profession https://twitter.com/anarparikh/status/1268863638879813635
This open letter and linked roadmap for Dismantling Racism at the Oxford Internet Institution is exceptionally detailed in the steps to be taken, at representational, epistemological, and structural levels https://twitter.com/C___CS/status/1272834274589319170
More focused on gendered violence and abuse, but highly relevant https://twitter.com/_onikoyi/status/1270464859319263232
H/t on the last statement @nasrat !!
Thank you to @randi_c1 for three excellent statements from MIT
First, for the Media Lab "to respond to ongoing issues of racism and police brutality by taking explicit actions to dismantle racism and its manifestations" https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSRW_7qRycwtny3k5QsUzA6ll7JRDRl-xHBHWpT-vLvkwBHM6D9FoieKG0Ax7zfuAncPBBD7tM_Bq8P/pub?urp=gmail_link
First, for the Media Lab "to respond to ongoing issues of racism and police brutality by taking explicit actions to dismantle racism and its manifestations" https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSRW_7qRycwtny3k5QsUzA6ll7JRDRl-xHBHWpT-vLvkwBHM6D9FoieKG0Ax7zfuAncPBBD7tM_Bq8P/pub?urp=gmail_link
Second, for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (yay STEM comrades!!) that notes "Science, as a whole, has a racism problem" and lays out another VERY specific list of demands https://dmseagainstracism.weebly.com/
And third from @randi_c1, a statement from the MIT Black Graduate Student Association that notes that after submitting demands previously, "5 years later, several of the recommendations remain at 0% completion" http://bgsa.mit.edu/sbl2020
(One thing senior scholars and admin canNOT say in response to these statements is that they are too vague, or that they are not constructive, or that they do not offer solutions, wow. I am learning so much through seeing more of these statements)
Here is an excellent thread of many more statements! https://twitter.com/lindsayaellis/status/1267924348758822916
