What is white supremacy culture and how can anti-oppressive pedagogy work against it?

The CUNY SPH Anti-racist Teaching Collaborative invites you to a special session with AntiOppression Consulting, based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this session, participants will begin a conversation on orienting themselves away from white supremacy culture (WSC) and towards anti-oppressive pedagogical practice. We will learn to identify and name the characteristics of WSC and to think through how anti-oppressive principles can help them to mitigate the effect of WSC on ourselves, our peers and students.

Prior to the session, we ask that you watch this video on white supremacy culture, and review a recent journal article by this team.

To RSVP and/or to join the collaborative, please contact Spring at Spring.Cooper@sph.cuny.edu or Meredith at Meredith.Manze@sph.cuny.edu.  

AntiOppression Consulting LLC is:

Anushka R Aqil, MPH, PhD (she/her) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Anushka wrote the first PhD of its kind to provide an evidence base for how public health faculty across the U.S. find ways to engage in anti-oppressive public health teaching and practices.

Keilah A. Jacques, MSW, CNP, CVA (she/her) is a Senior Researcher and Strategist for The Black Brain Trust, an organization that helps corporations make data-driven decisions to create more equitable companies. Keilah is also an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She designs and delivers to various organizations materials that promote and center social justice as a relational orientation.

Krystal Lee, EdD (she/her) is an educator and curriculum development specialist who finds fulfillment in using her unique combination of skills to create value. She believes the purpose of education is to prepare individuals to critically analyze the world, see themselves capable of making positive change and feel motivated to take action. Her goal is to help learners to develop the knowledge and skills required to make the change they wish to see in their work, their communities and the world.

Graham Mooney, PhD (he/him) is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of the History of Medicine. He is currently writing a book about the history of public health in Baltimore after world war 2. His anti-oppression work seeks to reveal the many ways in which historical structures of racism and violence persist in education, health, and medicine, and what can be done to dismantle them.