Ed Education & Community Em Empower ermen ent t in a ti time e of f Crisis Vi Virtu tual Town wn Ha Hall Mee eeti ting Ju June 4, 2020 Recording is available on YouTube Here: https://youtu.be/s3WDVICDlsM?t=432
Ag Agenda Welcoming Comments ◦ Dr. David Johnson, Merritt College President, Host ◦ Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud, Chancellor ◦ Dr. Angélica Garcia, BCC President ◦ Dr. Tammeil Gilkerson, Laney College President ◦ Dr. Timothy Karas, COA President Focused Discussion with Panelists ◦ Spencer Staggers-Elmore, ASMC President ◦ Jason Seals, Merritt College Faculty ◦ Jody Campbell, College of Alameda Faculty ◦ Dr. Lawrence Vanhook, Peralta Association of African American Affairs & Merritt College Faculty Town Hall Open Discussion
Re Resources Mental Health Resource for Peralta Employees ◦ MHN Employee Assistance Program (Company code: Peralta) Mental Health Resource for Peralta Students ◦ Metta Healing Oasis.com (When setting an appointment please indicate you are a Peralta District student and provide your student ID number.) Reading Resources ◦ How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi ◦ “Bearing Witness: The Death of George Floyd” ◦ The Racist Roots of American Policing: From Slave Patrols to Traffic Stops ◦ Mapping Police Violence ◦ “When Police Brutality Has You Questioning Humanity and Social Media is Enough” ◦ How to Raise a Black Son in America ◦ Between the World and Me ◦ 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice ◦ The Conversation We Must Have with Our White Children ◦ White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Mo More Reso sources Resources Suggested Via Chat ◦ https://teachingwhilewhite.org ◦ https://www.world-trust.org/ ◦ Layla Saad’s Me and White Supremacy ◦ https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/about-aptp ◦ Brent Staples essay “Just Walk on By” ◦ From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ◦ ”We Gotta Change First: Racial Literacy in a High School English Classroom” ◦ Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis ◦ Black and Asian American Feminist resources list ◦ It’s Pretty Much White: Challenges and Opportunities of an Antiracist Approach tot Literature Instruction in a Multilayered White Context ◦ Racist America by Joe Feagin
Mo More Reso sources Resources Suggested Via Chat ◦ Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court ◦ “Racial Literacy is Literacy: Locating Racial Literacy in the College Composition Classroom” by Mara Lee Grayson Actions You Can Take Now ◦ Write to media outlets and confront them on their intentional or unintentional perpetuation of white supremacy by the ways black images are depicted, described, and framed. Examples are calling black protestors “thugs” while white armed protestors as “patriots.” ◦ Use your professional or academic expertise to convene forums and panels that provide discussion, exploration, and reflection on structural, historical, and systemic racism. ◦ Share a list of helpful resources (like this one) ◦ Share ideas on how we may support the community and engage in antiracist efforts.
Thank You Take Good Care Questions? Write to markjohnson@peralta.edu
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