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Members of the university community are invited to register for SASS 559: Operationalizing Antiracism for Everyday Impact. This course will be offered in the spring Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8::30 p.m.

The class enrolls graduate students, CWRU staff, faculty, alumni as well as community practitioners. 

SASS 559: Operationalizing Antiracism for Everyday Impact (3 Credits)

With Mark L. Joseph – Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development; Founding Director, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities; Faculty Associate, Center on Poverty and Community Development 

With Jennifer A. King – Co-Director, Center on Trauma and Adversity

Interested in strengthening your ability to continue to advance antiracism in small and large ways? This engaging course offers an array of resources, tools and practices for effective antiracism. This course approaches antiracism as “a purposeful way of seeing and being in the world in order to transform it” (Lerner, 2021). Improve your confidence and ability to disrupt racism in all its forms at the internalized, interpersonal, institutional and system levels. The class enrolls CWRU students, CWRU staff, faculty and alumni as well as community practitioners - so it's a lively mix of participants each semester. As a hybrid course, it can be taken online or in-person and participants can alternate between attending online and in-person as it suits their needs.

Joseph's recently completed fiction book, , is a volume of antiracist short stories. It helps explain an element of his Everyday Antiracism framework: Curiosity, Structure, Perception, Belonging, Truth, Healing, Restitution, Power.

Previous students in the class were an early audience for the stories and their reactions and discussions have confirmed the value of the stories for personal learning and growth.