Antiracism in the Contemporary University

 I do not have time right now to read this but I am intrigued enough to pass it along:

 Introducing “Antiracism in the Contemporary University,” a Symposium

The LARB symposium “Antiracism in the Contemporary University” draws upon and extends this project, in which antiracism is the intellectual starting point for humanistic, literary, and rhetorical knowledge production — a concept with a history, a politics, and an aesthetics. Antiracism is also a practice to push us beyond the inadequacy of “diversity and inclusion.” As Zita C. Nunes has written, “This is not the time, if ever there was such a time, for shifting over a bit to make room, for being the one to allow others to speak, for making promises. This is the time for remaking, for asking who ‘we’ are.”

“Antiracism in the Contemporary University” features 12 single-authored essays, published today, and five conversations and a concluding essay, which will be published successively in the coming weeks. Readers will encounter discussions about art as a liberatory mode and a crucible of reckoning; the importance of community and communal histories; the disconnect between theory and practice; decentering whiteness, dismantling white supremacy, and refusing racism; and throughout, holding up and honoring the knowledge work of Black, Indigenous, and other minoritized scholars and artists. Taken together, these essays and conversations point to the complexities and even contradictions inherent in antiracist scholarship and practice.