Race Forward is a nonprofit racial justice organization with offices in Oakland, California, and New York City.[1] It defines its mission as "[helping] people take effective action toward racial equity."[2]
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| Formation | 1981 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) |
| Purpose | Racial justice, civil rights |
Director | Glenn Harris (2017 - present)
Rinku Sen (2006-2017) Gary Delgado (1981-2006) |
| Website | www.raceforward.org |
Formerly called | The Applied Research Center |
History
editRace 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 a Senior Strategist.[5]
Activities
editRace Forward describes itself as advancing the advance of racial justice through research, media, and leadership development.[7] Speaking to NBC in 2015, Executive Director Rinku Sen further characterized Race Forward as focusing on finding ways to re-articulate racism to draw attention to systemic racism.[8] According to Gary Deglado, its work is based on an intersectional understanding of race and the impact of racism alongside other social issues.[3]
In 2015, Race Forward explained its three principles as the use of specific and plain talk to say what you mean about race issues; the focus on impact rather than intention; and the use of 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] John Sullivan, a research associate with Race Forward, has described the organization's research on community demographics and shifting populations of Black communities as a tool to understand and support community organizing efforts.[12]
Race Forward has endorsed the Movement for Black Lives.[13]
Publications
editPublications 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 initially 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]
References
edit- ^ "What Are Activists Doing to Stop Trump's Racist Agenda? - November 16, 2016". SF Weekly. 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "WE CATALYZE MOVEMENTS TO ADVANCE THE VISION OF A MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY". Race Forward. August 6, 2024. Retrieved August 6, 2024.
- ^ a b Bernard, Riese (10 November 2013). "Colorlines' Applied Research Center Races Forward By Becoming 'Race Forward'". Autostraddle. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ Walljasper, Jay (January 1996). "Celebrating Hellraisers: Gary Delgado". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ a b "Rinku Sen". Facing Race: A National Conference. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "Possibility and Scale: The Merger of Race Forward and CSI". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ a b "Talking about race". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ a b "Envisioning and Enacting Racial Justice: Rinku Sen the Force Behind Race Forward". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "Millennials don't know how to talk about race, and that's a problem". PBS NewsHour. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ SEN, RINKU (2003). "Who's Got the Power? Resolving the grassroots-intermediary rift". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 10 (1): 26–56. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 41554366.
- ^ "OPINION: For police accountability, look beyond individual racial bias". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ Sullivan, John (2011). "African Americans Moving South — and to the Suburbs". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 18 (2): 19. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 41554768.
- ^ Arnold, Eric K. (2017). "The BLM Effect: Hashtags, History and Race". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 21 (2): 10. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 44687751.
- ^ Stoecker, Randy (1995). "Community, Movement, Organization: The Problem of Identity Convergence in Collective Action". The Sociological Quarterly. 36 (1): 127. doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.1995.tb02323.x. ISSN 0038-0253. JSTOR 4121280.
- ^ Younis, Mona (1998). "Chapter 11: San Antonio and Fruitvale". Cityscape. 4 (2): 240. ISSN 1936-007X. JSTOR 41486484.
- ^ Duncan, Garrett Albert (2000). "Urban Pedagogies and the Celling of Adolescents of Color". Social Justice. 27 (3 (81)): 41. ISSN 1043-1578. JSTOR 29767228.
- ^ Epstein, Kitty Kelly (2005). "The Whitening of the American Teaching Force: A Problem of Recruitment or a Problem of Racism?". Social Justice. 32 (3 (101)): 100. ISSN 1043-1578. JSTOR 29768323.
- ^ Thompson, Gail L.; Allen, Tawannah G. (2012). "Four Effects of the High-Stakes Testing Movement on African American K-12 Students". The Journal of Negro Education. 81 (3): 226. doi:10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218. ISSN 0022-2984. JSTOR 10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218. S2CID 140809345.
- ^ VOLANTE, LOUIS (2008). "Equity in Multicultural Student Assessment". The Journal of Educational Thought. 42 (1): 23. ISSN 0022-0701. JSTOR 23765469.
- ^ a b Delgado, Gary (2004). "Recruitment of Advocacy Researchers". Journal of Public Affairs Education. 10 (2): 170. ISSN 1523-6803. JSTOR 40215653.
- ^ Shaw, Kathleen M. (2003-12-19). "Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy". The Journal of Higher Education. 75 (1): 76. doi:10.1353/jhe.2003.0053. ISSN 1538-4640. S2CID 142848215.
- ^ Monroe, Carla R. (2005). "Why Are "Bad Boys" Always Black? Causes of Disproportionality in School Discipline and Recommendations for Change". The Clearing House. 79 (1): 49. doi:10.3200/TCHS.79.1.45-50. ISSN 0009-8655. JSTOR 30182106. S2CID 144663143.
- ^ "Multiracial Formations | The Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project". www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ Bond-Graham, Darwin; Liu, Yvonne Yen (2012). "Communities of Color Organize against Urban Land Grabs". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 19 (1): 66. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 41762547.
- ^ Kanny, M. Allison; Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Johnston, Marc P. (2015-05-18). "Examining the Significance of "Race" in College Students' Identity Within a "Postracial" Era". Journal of College Student Development. 56 (3): 241. doi:10.1353/csd.2015.0023. ISSN 1543-3382. S2CID 145801711.
- ^ Sánchez, Patricia (2014). "Research and Policy: Dignifying Every Day: Policies and Practices That Impact Immigrant Students". Language Arts. 91 (5): 371. ISSN 0360-9170. JSTOR 24575547.
- ^ 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.