The Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe opinion team announce The Emancipator
2 February, 2021 at 8:21 AM
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The mission of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research is to convene researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice. We foster exhaustive racial research, research-based policy innovation, data-driven educational and advocacy campaigns, and narrative-change initiatives. We are working toward building an antiracist society that ensures equity and justice for all.
Read the Founder’s Statement by Ibram X. Kendi
Whereas racist research historically has posed the question, “What is wrong with people?” antiracist research now asks a different question, a better question: “What is wrong with policies?” Our belief is that framing research on race and racism around antiracist questions leads to antiracist narratives, effective policy solutions, and impactful advocacy campaigns that cut to the root of racial inequality: racist policy.
Our work, like our center, is in the process of being developed. But one pressing project we are working on is the COVID Racial Data Tracker.
Join us for the second annual National Antiracist Book Festival, which takes place on April 24, 2021, in Washington, D.C. It is the first and only book festival that brings together, showcases, and celebrates the nation’s leading antiracist writers and helps to prepare the writers of tomorrow.
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