Redefining Race: Pathways to Collective Advancement

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Duration
16 weeks
Weekly Study
8.5 HOURS
Dates
Jan 21-May 12
Clock Hours
135

This online course is the first in a three-part series that explores racism’s complexities and the path toward unity through the Bahá’í Framework for Action. This framework, rooted in decades of global community building and social action, provides a lens to address systemic issues, highlighting principles like oneness and justice. This course will center Blackness as pivotal to understanding race relations and foreground Latine and Indigenous perspectives to address broader racialized experiences and collective healing. Spread across sixteen weeks, students will examine key elements of the framework, engage with relevant discourses, and apply their learning in their communities in the course project to foster unity and healing. The course focuses on process and coherence, avoiding a deficit framing of communities, centering instead on the telling of their own stories and experiences in pursuit of humanity’s oneness. This journey seeks to understand racism and actively contribute to its elimination. Participants will build the capacity to contribute to race-related discourses in their academic work, lived experiences, and community-building efforts. 

Who is the course for?
Who is the course for?

Applicants should either have a prior bachelor’s degree, or be a student in an undergraduate program at junior or senior level. The Wilmette Institute will provide support for students who wish to petition their institution of higher education to obtain credit. Space is limited to 25 students per course.

What will you achieve?
You will learn
Apply the Baha’i conceptual framework for action to assist in your approach towards the elimination of racism
Meet Your Faculty
teacher
Ymasumac Marañón Davis, PhD
Educational Consultant/Writer/Intuitive Healing

My name is Ymasumac Marañón Davis, though people call me Yma! Ymasumac is a Quechua Indian name from Bolivia. My father is a Bolivian of Quechua descent, my mother is from New England, and her ancestors, of English and Irish ancestry, came around the same time as the pilgrims. We... See Faculty Bio

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