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About Anti-Racism Movements
In the introduction to Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Tatum wrote, "Talking about racism is an essential part of facing racism and changing it. But it is not the only part. I am painfully aware that people of color have been talking about racism for a long time. Many people of color are tired of talking, frustrated that talk has not lead to enough constructive action or meaningful social change" (xix).
Racism, according to Tatum, "is not only a personal ideology based on racial prejudice, but a system involving cultural messages and institutional policies and practices as well as the beliefs and actions of individuals" (7, emphasis in original).
What, then, is "anti-racism"? According to Webster's New World College Dictionary, the prefix "anti-" signifies something "that counteracts, that operates against" another force or movement. Anti-racism, then, must mean the couteraction or opposition of both the racial prejudices and the system of advantages that make up what we now experience or recognize as racism.
Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. (Wikipedia) This is the first step towards the elimination of racism in the Carlisle community, and on a greater scale in the world community.
Unity groups are community-based volunteer organizations composed of both individuals and organizations that work to create a climate that promotes opposition to hate and respect for diversity among all people. Unity groups are usually formed in response to hate activities or the threat of such activity in their community, and remain active to address the underlying issues of racism and bigotry. Each local unity group is different... (PADNET)
There is a lot going on in the Carlisle and Greater Carlisle area in terms of anti-racism. Organizations such as the YWCA Social Justice Committee and AMANI have been formed in response to racist activity in the community, such as visits by the KKK and the Westboro Baptist Church. Other nationally recognized organizations, such as the NAACP, have formed branches in the Greater Carlisle and Greater Harrisburg area.
[1] Carlisle-based Organizations
Other Organizations
Find Out More
Group Members
- Zoë Artz (artzz@dickinson.edu)
- Anna Cumbie (cumbiea@dickinson.edu)
- Nina Scupp (scuppr@dickinson.edu)
