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4:00-4:20pm
Gather Yourself Up
  1. Look over the day's agenda
  2. Grab some tea/coffeee... get comfortable (as best as possible)

4:20-4:30pm
Connect
Zoom room opens so that we can say hello and enter as fully as possible in such a space.

Presentations
​(4:30-5:30pm)

  1. Ruba presents Alexis Pauline Gumbs's work (4:30-4:45)
  2. José Luis presents Sylvia Wynter's work (4:45-5:00)
  3. Ruba and José Luis talk back and forth (5:00-5:15)
  4. Open Discussion with whole group (5:15-5:30)

BREAK: 5:40-5:55pm

Open Sessions
5:55-6:40pm
1. Announcements, Questions & Processing
  • Does this presentation set-up work okay?  Comfortable enough?  10-minute back and forth?
  • There are two chapter options in next week's readings.  These chapters have not been copied and PDF-ed yet but will be as soon as possible.
  • Presenters will always be listed as zoom co-hosts with Carmen.
  • I will continue sending weekly emails/zoom invitations (but will stop and un-clutter your inbox soon).
  • Zoom will ping for everyone when someone enters or leaves the session-- please notice when someone has been disconnected and help them re-join conversations.
  • If I am not noticing someone's comment/question/issue in the chat, please jump in and  interrupt.
  • If you haven't received it already, a package from me should be coming to you in the mail soon.
  • Click here to sign up for your SEPTEMBER MEETING with me (we'll do the same for October).
2.  More Corny Icebreakers
  • Paste your playlist or type your summer bop in the chat.
  • Go-Around: Tell us your name and areas of interest (yes, like last week)... and something about the music your shared. 
3. A Peek inside of Abolitionist University Studies (next week's readings)
Things to notice:
  • The departure from CUS
  • Critique vs. theory
  • The progress/ change/ uplift narrative of university systems
  • Do you see any connections to Wynter and Gumbs? 
4. Racist Progress
vs.
​Racial Progress (i.e., Racial Realism)
We won't read Ibram Kendi's book, How to Be an Anti-Racist, in this class but you should be familiar with this text as it now part of a larger mainstream discourse on anti-racism.*
Central Ideas/ Take-Aways from Interview Above
  • Racist progress WITH racial progress (0:00-12:30)
  • Ignorance about race/racism (21:00-23; 46:20-51:00)
  • White supremacy + racism (35:00-37:20)
  • "Implicit bias" (41:00-43:20)
  • Self-care (51:00 to end)
  • Differential benefits (12:30-20:00)
  • Assimilation vs. segregation (24:00-30:00; 43:20-46:20)
  • Allies & gatekeepers (37:20-41:00)
*You should also read Stamped from the Beginning.