Anti-Black Racism Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

EUC Commitment to Addressing Anti-Black Racism & Facilitating Black Inclusion

paultran — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:02:23 +0000

We at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) are committed to addressing anti-Black racism and to facilitating an EUC culture and practice fully attentive to equity, diversity, and inclusivity. Our approach is meant to be restorative, hopeful, and tangible in pursuit of systemic change. We endorse the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black […]

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Conversation to action: Urban planning resource to address anti-Black racism in cities

paultran — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:29:17 +0000

Spurred by the death of George Floyd, 91��ɫ alumna, award-winning placemaker and author Jay Pitter brings her work in urban planning policy and anti-Black racism to the University to create a new resource – Engaging Black People and Power. This powerful resource, developed in a Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) graduate-level urban planning course of […]

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The Collective Cost of Anti-Black Racism: COVID-19 and the Boomerang Effect

paultran — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:45:08 +0000

by Joseph Mensah Abstract: Blacks are the primary scapegoats for the maladies of the world. This might sound melodramatic to those who are privileged enough to steer clear of this reality. The piece does not offer a definitive answer to the tripartite riddle of why Blacks are dying more than the rest, why they are […]

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Disability organizations in general “don’t talk about race, and specifically racism and anti-Black racism,” says grad Sadora Asefaw

paultran — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:55:25 +0000

Disability organizations in general “don’t talk about race, and specifically racism and anti-Black racism,” says Sadora Asefaw, who studied the experiences of Black families raising children with developmental disabilities for a master’s degree in environmental studies from 91��ɫ, and is now working on an independent digital storytelling project about how Black families and families […]

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