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Welcome to Deconstructing Race, Racism & Theatre! Drop: 🎭 Your name & pronouns 📍 Where you’re joining from 🖤 One reason you joined 📸 A photo of your workspace, rehearsal room, or favorite creative corner Bonus: If your life were a play right now, what would this chapter be called?
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Doing the Work is available in the Classroom tab!
The foundational course designed to help you build real understanding of how race and racism actually function, beyond surface-level conversations, good intentions, or personal anecdotes. This course breaks down key concepts like systemic racism, power, racialization, and harm, while challenging common myths and misunderstandings that keep people stuck. You’ll learn how racism operates not just through individual actions, but through systems, structures, and everyday participation, and how to recognize your role within that without collapsing into defensiveness or avoidance. This course centers impact over intent, and gives you the language, frameworks, and self-awareness needed to engage responsibly in conversations about race. 👉 Doing the Work is the recommended starting point before taking more applied courses like the Allyship Toolbox. Want to learn more about Deconstructing Race, Racism and Theater? Take the course. This isn’t about perfection or being seen as “good.” It’s about building the clarity and capacity to show up differently, consistently, and with accountability.
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Sliding Scale: Making Learning Accessible for Everyone
💛 Education should be accessible. In this economy, groceries are expensive. Rent is still due. Existing is expensive. We can all use a break. I never want cost or financial barriers to be the reason someone can't access this work. That's why I offer flexible options for my courses: ✨ Pay what you can if that's what works for your budget. ✨ Can't pay right now? That's okay. Reach out and let me know you plan to pay later. ✨ Need a payment plan? Let's work something out together. I'd rather find a solution than turn someone away. ✨ Scholarships are available for those who need them. At the same time, I want to honor that labor has value. Creating courses, research, resources, graphics, and community spaces takes time, energy, and care. If you're able to contribute financially, your support helps make this work sustainable and helps me continue offering scholarships and flexible pricing to others. My goal isn't gatekeeping knowledge. My goal is getting knowledge into the hands of people who want to learn, grow, heal, and do the work. If cost is the barrier, send me a message. We'll figure something out. 💛 The priority is education, empowerment, and accessibility—please pay whatever feels right for you, and know that every contribution helps support broader access to these materials.
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Anti-Whiteness Starter-Pak United Panther Party – U.S. | Ministry of Political Education Whiteness isn’t a culture. It’s a political project engineered by empire to consolidate power through racial hierarchy. It works as a system of dominance, not an identity rooted in authentic heritage. Whiteness was built to flatten the diverse cultural identities of European peoples: Irish, Italian, Slavic, and others, into a single monolithic category of “white,” stripping away language, traditions, and communal bonds in exchange for proximity to power. This bargain was never free. It demanded the surrender of cultural soul for the illusion of safety and privilege. Generations were taught to collaborate with empire’s machinery, believing whiteness would secure their children’s future. In reality, it severed them from ancestral memory and bound them to a system that thrives on exploitation, extraction, and global serfdom. Whiteness isn’t neutral. It’s the ideological glue of empire, designed to maintain control by dividing the oppressed and recruiting collaborators. Anti-whiteness isn’t hatred of people, it’s refusal of the system that consumes cultures, erases histories, and weaponizes identity for domination. Origins of Whiteness • Whiteness emerged during colonial expansion as a tool for racial capitalism, the only capitalism that exists. • It was designed to justify land theft, slavery, and genocide by creating a hierarchy that placed Europeans above all others. • This system offered poor Europeans a false sense of superiority in exchange for loyalty to empire. The Price of Assimilation • European immigrants were pressured to abandon languages, traditions, and communal practices to become “white.” • Cultural diversity was sacrificed for access to jobs, housing, and social acceptance under racial capitalism. • Whiteness promised security but delivered dependency on empire’s violence and exploitation. Why Anti-Whiteness Is Liberation • Anti-whiteness dismantles the system that divides oppressed peoples and erases authentic cultures.
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Moral Disengagement Theory
Albert Bandura's theory of Moral Disengagement explains how ordinary people can commit harmful acts without seeing themselves as immoral. Rather than abandoning their conscience, people temporarily disconnect it through psychological mechanisms that justify or conceal wrongdoing. Harm can be presented as serving a noble cause, hidden behind sanitized language, shifted onto authority figures, spread across many participants, or directed at people who have been dehumanized or blamed for their own suffering. Bandura argued that these processes are not merely individual failings but are often encouraged by institutions that reward obedience, divide responsibility, and distance decision-makers from the consequences of their actions. His work shows that the greatest threat to morality is not the absence of conscience, but the ease with which conscience can be switched off under social and institutional pressure. Moral Disengagement, Conscience, Responsibility, Obedience, Dehumanization, Violence, Social Psychology, Institutions, Ethics, Moral Agency. #albertbandura #moraldisengagement #socialpsychology #ethics #authority #obedience #dehumanization #violence #politicaltheory #socialscience #politicalscience #polscience https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AMLuw2RjC/
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