Race Forward

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Race Forward
Formation1981
Type501(c)(3)
PurposeRacial justice, civil rights
Director
Glenn Harris (2017 - present)

Rinku Sen (2006-2017)

Gary Delgado (1981-2006)
Websitewww.raceforward.org
Formerly called
The Applied Research Center

Race Forward is a nonprofit racial justice organization with offices in Oakland, California, and New York City.[1] Race Forward focuses on catalyzing movement-building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, the organization build strategies to advance racial justice in policies, institutions, and culture.[2]

History

Race Forward was founded by Gary Delgado in 1981, and was known as the Applied Research Center until 2013.[3][4] Delgado remained in leadership until 2006, after which point Rinku Sen became executive director.[5] In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion and is now under the leadership of Glenn Harris, former President of the Center for Social Inclusion.[6] Rinku Sen remained with the organization as Senior Strategist.[5]

Activities

Race Forward advances racial justice through research, media, and leadership development.[7] The work of Race Forward focuses on finding ways to re-articulate racism to draw attention to systemic racism.[8] Their work is based on an intersectional understanding of race and the impact of racism alongside other social issues.[3]

Race Forward emphasizes three principles: using specific and plain talk to say what you mean about race issues; focusing on impact rather than intention; and using strategic terms as well as moral arguments.[7] The organization has published research reports and editorials on issues such as millennials and their attitudes towards race, environmental issues and grassroots organizing, race and religion, and police accountability.[9][10][11] Race Forward uses research on community demographics and shifting populations of Black communities to understand and support community organizing efforts.[12]

Race Forward has endorsed the Movement for Black Lives.[13]

Publications

Publications from Race Forward include:

Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990s (1994)[14]

Deliberate Disadvantage: A Case Study of Race Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996)[15]

Education and Race (1998)[16]

Crisis: How California Teaching Policies Aggravate Racial Inequality in Public Schools (1999)[17]

Facing the consequences: An examination of racial discrimination in U.S. public schools (2000)[18]

Racial profiling and punishment in U.S. public schools: How zero tolerance policies and high stakes testing subvert academic excellence and racial equity (2001)[19]

"Cruel and Usual: How Welfare 'Reform' Punishes Poor People (2001)[20]

Welfare Reality (2001)[21]

Mapping the Immigrant Infrastructure (2002)[20]

Profiled and punished: How San Diego schools undermine Latino and African American student achievement (2002)[22]

Multiracial Formations (2003)[23]

Race and Recession (May 2009)[24]

Don’t call them “Post-Racial”: Millennials’’ attitudes on race, racism, and key systems in our society. (2011)[25]

Shattered families: The perilous intersection of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system (2011)[26]

Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit

Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines, published by Executive Director Rinku Sen. Colorlines was initial a magazine, and it transformed into a website in 2010.[8]

In 2015, Race Forward launched an interactive multimedia tool called "Clocking-In," designed to highlight race and gender inequality in service industries.[27]

Conference

Race Forward presented Facing Race: A National Conference. Facing Race is the largest national biennial gathering of racial justice advocates, journalists, community organizers, artists, and more.

#MeToo movement.[29]

References

  1. ^ a b "What Are Activists Doing to Stop Trump's Racist Agenda? - November 16, 2016". SF Weekly. 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. ^ "About Race Forward". Race Forward. 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  3. ^ a b Bernard, Riese (10 November 2013). "Colorlines' Applied Research Center Races Forward By Becoming 'Race Forward'". Autostraddle. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  4. ^ Walljasper, Jay (January 1996). "Celebrating Hellraisers: Gary Delgado". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  5. ^ a b "Rinku Sen". Facing Race: A National Conference. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  6. ^ "Possibility and Scale: The Merger of Race Forward and CSI". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  7. ^ a b "Talking about race". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  8. ^ a b "Envisioning and Enacting Racial Justice: Rinku Sen the Force Behind Race Forward". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  9. ^ "Millennials don't know how to talk about race, and that's a problem". PBS NewsHour. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
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  11. ^ "OPINION: For police accountability, look beyond individual racial bias". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
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  23. ^ "Multiracial Formations | The Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project". www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
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  27. ^ Innovation, Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice. "Race Forward Launches Interactive Tool on Race and Gender Employment Inequities". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  28. ^ "Facing Race: A National Conference in Detroit, MI 2018". ssw.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  29. ^ Podder, Api (2018-04-23). "#MeToo Founder Tarana Burke to Keynote Facing Race National Conference in Detroit". My Social Good News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.