A tactic in perpetuating racism is to deny or hide the role race and racism play in our society. The most important institutions of our society – education, religion, justice, real estate, healthcare and others – reproduce and imprint racial ideologies that deny and justify racial and ethnic inequities. To understand the role of racism we have to understand contemporary history and reality using an anti-racist analysis.

The Anti-Racism Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, in partnership with Dr. Victor M. Rodriguez, is offering a new online two-day training program, Comprender El Racismo Para Las Comunidades Hispanas, conducted entirely in Spanish and culturally relevant to the Hispanic communities.

Comprender El Racismo Para Las Comunidades Hispanas teaches you how to use an anti-racist analysis to understand and deconstruct the systems that perpetuate  racial and ethnic oppression and inequality. The goal is to help you understand the fundamental role of racial issues in our daily lives. Without this knowledge, we can not create anti-racist spaces and relationships. If we do not fight racism and  its role in our lives, we will not be able to live a life where solidarity and Christian love  prevail. This is a process change. Racism was built through many generations, and deconstructing the pillars that sustain it is also a generational task.

Please consider registering for this important class. It will be held on two consecutive Saturdays –May 11 and May 18 – from Noon EDT through 4 p.m. EDT on Zoom. It can be accessed on your computer, tablet or phone.

Content Outline:

1. History of how resistance to racism movements have been created and maintained.
2. Analysis of power
3. Defining racism
4. Power
5. Identity: internalized racist oppression, internalized racist superiority
6. Institutions, systems and institutionalized racism
7. Culture, socialization, and cultural racism
8. Institutional change versus individual change
9. Anti-racism

Click Here to Register for the Spanish-Language Anti-Racism Training. Registration closes on May 6. The registration fee is $100. (If you are a Deputy to the General Convention, use code GC2024 when you register to get a discounted fee that is subsidized by The Episcopal Church’s Office for Racial Reconciliation.)