Goals:
- Understand how stereotypes and beliefs about Black people maintain a culture of anti-blackness.
- Reflect on how anti-blackness divides us and prevents us from building power together.
- Lay the groundwork for effective allyship with Black communities that acknowledges privileges and shared oppressions
Key Concepts: Slavery, Antiblackness, Implicit bias
*This is an excerpt from the Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit. The toolkit represents the work and thinking of 15 grassroots organizations with Asian American bases living in the most precarious margins of power and their experiences with criminalization, deportation, homophobia, xenophobia and Islamo-racism, war, gender violence, poverty, and worker exploitation. By highlighting the role of people’s resistance both past and present, the toolkit seeks to build hope and a commitment to political struggle.
To find the full toolkit, visit asianamtoolkit.org. Or access other workshops from this toolkit on Build the Wheel.