ANTI-RACIST TEACHING COLLECTIVE
  • ABOUT
    • Our Collective
  • Syllabus
  • Key Concepts
    • Abolition
    • Acculturation
    • Agency
    • Authenticity
    • Code Switching
    • Colonization
    • Color Blindness
    • Colorism
    • Cultural Appropriation
    • Intersectionality
    • Internalized Racism
    • Person Centered Language
    • Positionality
    • Racial Bribe
    • Racism
    • Respectability Politics
    • Structure
    • Whiteness
    • White Supremacy
  • Student Voices
  • In Conversation

Structure

Structure is defined as the interconnected systems of power that maintain the status quo through the systematic and systemic organization of ideologies, discourses, interactions and relationships within political, legal, economic and social/cultural institutions

Structures shape a community and an individual's access to opportunities, and is determined by several factors, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class,  religion, citizenship status etc.

Institutions affect the systemic & systematic organization of social groups/communities and individuals, and thereby their capacity for Agency

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Mission Makeover (2012), Lucia Ippolito and Tirso Araiza

​"I try continually to talk to my father about structural realities, policies and decisions as being even more decisive in the outcomes his life than any choice he personally made. I talk about the politics of personal responsibility, how it's mostly a lie meant to keep us from challenging real-world legislative decisions that chart people's paths, that undo people's lives"
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele,
​When They Call You A Terrorist
"I am Joaquín, lost in a world of confusion, 
caught up in the whirl of a gringo society, 
confused by the rules, scorned by attitudes, 
suppressed by manipulation, and destroyed by modern society"
 Rodolfo Corky Gonzales
I am Joaquin,
"The central argument of this book is that U.S. economic and political domination over Latin America has always been -and continues to be- the underlying reason for the massive Latino presence here. Quite simply our vast Latino population is the unintended harvest of the U.S. empire."
Juan Gonzalez,
Harvest of Empire


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Harvest of Empire
2000, 2011
Juan Gonzalez
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"The Case for Reparations"
2006
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Solutions Not Suspensions 
2014
directed by Kevin Epps
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​Freedom is a Constant Struggle
2016
Angela Y. Davis
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
1993, 2018
Derrick Bell
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  • ABOUT
    • Our Collective
  • Syllabus
  • Key Concepts
    • Abolition
    • Acculturation
    • Agency
    • Authenticity
    • Code Switching
    • Colonization
    • Color Blindness
    • Colorism
    • Cultural Appropriation
    • Intersectionality
    • Internalized Racism
    • Person Centered Language
    • Positionality
    • Racial Bribe
    • Racism
    • Respectability Politics
    • Structure
    • Whiteness
    • White Supremacy
  • Student Voices
  • In Conversation