HOPE Community Reflections - Fall 2024: Racelighting
Beginning on Monday, October 7, 2024, HOPE will begin its Fall Community Reflections. These sessions will serve as an excellent opportunity to contextualize and deepen our work at the college as we move forward.
We will begin this exercise through the collective engagement in the Racelighting Course, created by Dr. J. Luke Wood, the pivotal voice behind the Black Minds Matter Course. This five-part course addresses how schools, colleges, and universities can address this issue, which is distinguished from gaslighting when the messages used to invalidate the victim are racial. Racelighting is an act of psychological manipulation where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) receive racial messages that distort their realities and lead them to second-guess themselves.
Community Reflections will happen in two parts: a 45-50 minute review of the course content; and 20-30 minute deep dive immediately following the session designed for participants, with a focus on group discussions and real-world applications of learning.
Previous recordings from the reflections during this semester can be found on Panopto.
The days and times for the series will go as follows:
Racelighting (Monday afternoons, 2:45-4 p.m.)
*All videos can be found on YouTube.
Introduction: Antecedents of Racelighting | Monday, October 7, 2024
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Chapter 1: Racial Microaggressions | Monday, October 21, 2024
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Chapter 2: An introduction to Racelighting | Monday, November 4, 2024
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Chapter 3: Common Messages Racelighters Use | Monday, November 18, 2024
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Chapter 4: Strategies for Improvement | Monday, December 2, 2024
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