Roots Deeper Than Whiteness
- building emotional strength & political clarity for collective liberation -
Online Course with White Awake
Facilitators: Eleanor Hancock and David Dean
"If you don't know who you are, society will tell you, and then you are lost."
– Emilio Guerrera
In the current historical moment, with multiple crises coming to a head, white people have a pressing need to connect with our basic humanity and separate ourselves from the status-quo-supporting roles we are socialized and manipulated to play.
Roots Deeper than Whiteness is White Awake's annual foundations course, designed to help white people reject the role we have been groomed to fill and build a healthy sense of self rooted in liberatory knowledge and practice. Many of our other online courses expand on the three essential themes that are covered in the Roots Deeper curriculum: developing emotional resilience and an innate, political wisdom; connecting personal and family stories to a broader historical and political analysis; and familiarization with basic elements of solidarity-based action for positive social change.
This is a good course for white folks at all stages of political development, whether you are new to anti-racism or have years of experience in activism, organizing, and/or working class politics. It is also a great introduction to White Awake's work, and can be a powerful curriculum for group engagement.
The goal of the class is to support your (or your group's) engagement in multiracial, solidarity-based organizing for a world where everyone thrives. In service of this goal, the course offers:
- A broad political analysis that prioritizes solidarity (i.e., "we are all in this together") and uncovers the centuries-long use of racism as a tool of the most powerful to divide and control the rest of us
- Historical understanding of the creation of white racial identity, and the opportunity to reflect on what was lost when our families assimilated into it (including the loss of ethnic identity and radical political tradition)
- Hidden histories of resistance, self-determination and multi-racial movements for social change that we can claim and carry forward
- Tools to help understand and care for your emotions so that you can respond rather than react in emotionally charged situations
- Support for creating an action plan to build on the work of this class and personally engage in the work of social change
✵CE Credits for Social Workers!✵ This course is pending approval from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Continuing Education credits. Supplemental processing sessions, facilitated by a LCSW, will be included as part of the Social Work CE credit track. We anticipate approval from NASW before the course begins, and will notify registrants of their decision.
✵Supplemental Mindfulness Training✵ with meditation instructor Byron Wild will be offered as an optional component of the course. Emphasis will be placed on mindfulness as a practice for resilience and transformation within the context of collective struggle for an equitable society.
Training consists of two separate meetings between live sessions of the course and half an hour of mindfulness instruction before each live session. All registered participants will be invited to attend.
Live sessions: Oct 9, Oct 23, Nov 6 & Nov 20
4-6:30pm ET (1-3:30pm PT)
Sliding scale $80 - $280 fee for course
No one turned away for lack of funds
Click here to register on our site
Sessions will be recorded. Live attendance is not mandatory.
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