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Actualizing Racial Justice and Decolonization in Settled and Turbulent Times

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Laila I. McCloud, Ph.D @HeyDrMcCloud Alex C. Lange, M.Ed @ItsAlexCL

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Social Justice Summit Sponsors and Hosts

• The GradCenter

gradcenter.org

• Office of Graduate Studies

wiu.edu/graduate_studies

• College Student Personnel Program

wiu.edu/csp

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WEBINAR FEATURES

• Questions & Answers

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Land Acknowledgement

Western Illinois University exists on the lands of the Peoria, Sauk, Meskwaki, Potawatomi, Miami, and Sioux Nations. The University of Iowa is located on the territorial lands of the Sioux, Meskwaki, Sauk & Fox, and Iowa peoples. These lands were the traditional territory of these Native Nations prior to their forced removal; these lands continue to carry the stories of these Nations. The histories and dispossession of these nations are related to the growth and expansion of higher education in the U.S. We want to acknowledge and center Native peoples at the start and throughout this webinar.

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WHY US? WHY THIS? WHY NOW?

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TODAY’S JOURNEY

• We’ll address differential challenges for

college students amidst a pandemic

• Discuss how the framework for the Strategic

Imperative on Racial Justice and Decolonization can help us imagine a new campus environment

• Translate what this means for your everyday

practice

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THE STATE OF THE WORLD THROUGH A RACIAL JUSTICE AND DECOLONIAL LENS

• Various tribes, including those in South Dakota

(Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes), taking action to protect their land from those positively tested for COVID-19;

• Lack of ventilators in various tribal nations;
• The resurgence of Ahmaud Aubrey’s killing and

the attention for Breonna Taylor;

• The racial disparities in COVID-19 infections and

deaths

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THE STATE OF THE WORLD THROUGH A RACIAL JUSTICE AND DECOLONIAL LENS

• Nina Pop, George Floyd, Tony McDade,

Dominique Fells, Riah Milton. Toyin Salau;

• Protests across the country in response to the

devaluing of Black lives;

• Campuses response to plans for the fall

2020 semester + messaging about social unrest

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WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO DREAM TODAY

• All the information you have needed to

engage in the work has existed for decades

○ Students have been instituting demands to institutions since the 1960s; what’s the status

• f these at your institution?
• Retain institutional memory

○ What will be the cycles of outrage, placating, and non-change that occur each school year? How do we use our individual and collective memory to plan for these events in a way that breaks these cycles?

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• This work concerns all of us

○ Though as a field we put students first, a racially just and decolonized world requires that we take care of one another as educators in sustainable, life-giving ways

• The work of justice requires the fullness of
• ur humanity

○ This is lifetime work; it requires finding our joy and utilizing our anger each day to make change happen

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WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO DREAM TODAY

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THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE ON RACIAL JUSTICE AND DECOLONIZATION

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STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE ON RACIAL JUSTICE AND DECOLONIZATION

The Core The Ten Principles The Three Frames The Outline of Time

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COMMUNICATING TO STUDENTS & EACH OTHER

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COMMUNICATING TO STUDENTS & EACH OTHER

• How do we expand the circle of support beyond

students?

○ How do we support those (of us) who are explicitly and implicitly deemed experts on issues of unrest related to RJ&D?

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In what ways do we rely on these experts on unrest to absolve ourselves of this work?

• How do we help students’ envision their

belonging on campus beyond a room or a building as we dream of new possibilities on college campuses?

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COMMUNICATING TO STUDENTS & EACH OTHER

• What do our individual and collective imaginations

do with Black and Native bodies? Do we imbue them with full humanity on campus?

○ Are Black people the subject of constant violence? Why is the visual depiction of Black pain the primary motivator of change? Is that the

• nly way white folks (among others) are able to

understand Black bodies? ○ Are Native students, their tribal affiliations, and cultural practices always relegated to the past? Do we consider the displacement of Native peoples to be an ongoing phenomenon? #WIUSJS20 || @HeyDrMcCloud @ItsAlexCL

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CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR

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CONSIDERATIONS FOR THIS 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR AND ALL THE YEARS TO COME

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• How are you preparing your campus for the

forthcoming school year?

○ How much will you rely on “students guiding the way” versus your knowledge? ○ What assumptions do you have that students having a certain identity means they should be knowledgeable about oppression? ○ What expectations can we as professionals take back from students that we have placed

• n them?

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CONSIDERATIONS FOR THIS 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR AND ALL THE YEARS TO COME

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• How does the pace of our response match the

urgency of the moment while being thoughtful about the work to be done?

• How will you, your unit, your division, and your

campus acknowledge the realities of this summer for students that meaningfully notes the shifts happening locally and globally?

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Questions? Comments? Compliments

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Thank You

• Laila I. McCloud li-mccloud@wiu.edu

Alex C. Lange alex-lange@uiowa.edu Shirley Moore The GradCenter Kellie Larrabee Office of Graduate Studies Western Illinois University Jill Bisbee College Student Personnel Program Western Illinois University

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