CAR Brings Together Center Affiliates for First Convening
The Center for Antiracist Research hosted our Inaugural Affiliates Program Networking Event on Wednesday, January 19th.
Together, scholars from ranging fields and research methodologies collaboratively envisioned concrete plans for the Affiliates Program. Center colleagues and scholars had the opportunity to initiate relationship-building and explore strategies for future collaborations and interdisciplinary engagement.
Around 80 Affiliates and staff joined the virtual networking session. In his opening remarks, Center Founder & Director Dr. Ibram X. Kendi highlighted the importance of creating spaces for antiracist scholars to convene and co-create. He also noted the critical need of interdisciplinary scholarship to advance the work of dismantling racism.
“Personally, one of the most exciting aspects of my colleagues and I building the Center for Antiracist Research in Boston, in New England, is that we may have in this region the highest concentration of scholars studying racism in the world,” said Dr. Kendi, “One of the things we wanted to do with the Center is to bring us all together in a community, to ensure that we are networking, collaborating, and working together to use our expertise to study, reveal, and eliminate racism.”
Linda Sprague Martinez, CAR Assistant Director of Research and one of the event hosts, said, “It is our hope that this will be the first of many sessions and that over time, we will create a space that inspires partnership and planning to cultivate a shared commitment to advancing justice through antiracist scholarship and practice.”