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Antiracist Toolkit

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies has an important role to play in the work that we all need to do to “strive to be ‘antiracist’ on a daily basis, to continually rededicate ourselves to the lifelong task of overcoming our country’s racist heritage,” in the words of the historian Ibram X. Kendi (“An Antiracist Reading List,” New York Times May 29, 2020).

Our department’s faculty, staff, and students would all benefit from engaging with the resources below. We need to educate ourselves about racism past and present. We need to understand the role of racism in the institution in which we work and study and in the communities in which we live. We need to examine the insidious effects of bias in our academic fields and in our classrooms, and do the work of acknowledging these forces to begin overcoming them. And we can start by understanding our own racism and privilege. This is not a quick or easy fix. It is in fact a “lifelong task.”

This list focus on three action areas: educating and assessing ourselves; examining and revising our work; and enacting change. It is a work in progress and all suggestions are welcome.

Educating and assessing ourselves

Examining and revising our work

Enacting change

These resources were collected through suggestions from Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies faculty as well as a from a huge range of online lists and articles, including the following:

 

Address

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
New West 113, CB# 3267 UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3267

Contact

919-962-4294
919-843-7817
asia@unc.edu
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