Tali Hairston delivered one of the keynote sessions at the 2019 NEXT Church National Gathering. The theme was "Woven Together: Stories of Dissonance, Sacrifice and Liberation."
Dr. Christina Edmondson is the Dean for Intercultural Student Development at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. In this speech, Dr. Edmondson addresses the fact that we live in an extremely polarized world. She explains that the solutions to reconciling this polarization include humility, observation, and most importantly, legitimate confrontation.
Do you ever wonder, in conversations about race, about the meanings of the words people use? Do you suspect the words might mean different things to different people? Under Our Skin looks at twelve different words that frequently come up in conversations about race.
Dr. Robin DiAngelo is the author of "What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy" and has been an anti-racist educator, and has heard justifications of racism by white men and women in her workshops for over two decades. This justification, which she calls “white fragility,” is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation.
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