Confronting Anti-Blackness: Withdrawing the Wedge Between Asian and Black Americans

Join the Cultural and Resource Centers for a week-long series of events focusing on confronting anti-Blackness. Each program is a space for intra-community discussions ending with a larger coalitional/inter-community space/dialogue/workshop of how we all are responsible for resisting anti-Blackness.

** Anti-blackness definition: Anti-Blackness is the personal, cultural, social, legal, and structural devaluing and disenfranchisement of people racialized as Black. Whether intentional or not, anti-Blackness ultimately serves to uphold a system of white supremacy through oppressive policies, institutions, and ideologies.

Join us for an open dialogue with local community organizer, Kristina Tendilla, to unpack our personal experiences with anti-Blackness as people belonging to the Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American diaspora. Through story-telling, we will critically reflect on the narratives we have been told about Blackness in America and build skills to disrupt these narratives amongst family, friends, and our greater communities.

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