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UPHOLDING RACIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY (URJE)

Who We Are and What We Do!

We have a new name!


Upholding Racial Justice & Equity Group (URJE)


URJE is a self-created group of AMM members/ attenders with a dedication to  understanding racism in ourselves, our Meeting, community, country and  world.  


Formerly the Whiteness Study Group, we have facilitated AMM's participation in this process since 2018.  Examples include: A monthly self-study group; movie  nights; monthly and intermittent workshops on such topics as: whiteness, white supremacy, racism, implicit bias, microaggressions, and  more.  


We invite AMM members, attenders and  friends to join us.  Contact us at: info@abqfriends.org

Toward Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Faith Community

At the January 2020 Meeting for Worship for Business we reminded Meeting of the AMM minute passed in 2017 in support of the Friends General Conference Institutional Assessment on Structural Racism.  We also reviewed AMM's work on whiteness & racism over the past two years.


The following Minute was approved at the Monthly Meeting for Worship for Business on February 2, 2020:


Albuquerque Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, acknowledging that we are affected by structural racism within a historical framework of white supremacy in the United States, commit to a period of self-reflection and discernment toward becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Faith Community.  The process will be guided by an anti racism assessment team made up of volunteers, with a report back to AMM by September 2020, or sooner.


The COVID 19 pandemic made the above goal impossible to meet.  However, URJE, in conjunction with the Sanctuary Working Group, has proposed to AMM that the Meeting undertake a more serious study of structural racism/whiteness.  No decision on this prompting has been reached as of December 2022.


 Questions?  Contact:  Richard Knottenbelt, (313-5263)  Miriam Bennett (440-8919) or Sara Keeney (379-3392) with questions. 

LEARN MORE - AND MORE - AND MORE!!

 DOWNLOAD BELOW a copy of the Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Faith Community to be used as a guide in our own work.  


Scroll down further for a larger library of articles/videos on these subjects. 


We welcome your favorite articles, too.  Send them to: info@abqfriends.org attention WSG.


If you missed reviewing the FGC Institutional Assessment, links are provided below:

FGC Institutional Assessment Full Report

FGC Institutional Assessment Executive Summary

Our Next WSG Meetings - Join Us! 2nd Thursdays

April 13, May 11, and June 8 (Second Thursday) 6:30-8:00 p.m. on ZOOM.

We welcome new members.  To obtain a link and to RSVP contact:   sarahmalone1949@gmail.com

BECOMING AN ANTI-RACIST MULTICULTURAL FAITH COMMUNITY

Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Faith Community

AntiRacismContinuumRevised (PDF)

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Upholding Racial Justice & Equity Group Format

Download below the format we adopted at our April 2019  URJE meeting.

Whiteness Study Group Format adopted April 2019 (pdf)

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fgc VIRTUAL WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

WEEKLY ONLINE WORSHIP FOR FRIENDS OF COLOR & FOR WHITE FRIENDS CONFRONTING RACISM

Friends General Conference (FGC) offers weekly worship opportunities online for both Friends of Color and for White Friends Confronting Racism.  Learn more, including how to register, on the News/Events page.


Here's what an AMM member who regularly attends this gathering shared:

"I mark my calendar now by the weekly Worship for White Friends Confronting Racism group.  It is a space  in which I feel utterly safe in considering issues of internalized racism, experiences as a white person in bringing anti-racism consciousness and work to my meeting, and growing in my understanding of the spiritual aspects of this work.  Breakout groups add to the opportunities for fellowship and mutual support.  I find it discouraging that the number of attendees is small -- with this offering extending to Quakers across the country.  It begs the question as to where is everyone else? As one participant said, "We have to find ways to talk with other white people about race!"  Join us!"

NEW LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES!

National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution) Talking About Race

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has produced extensive learning modules for any level or type of interest in anti-racist training.  This website is another very rich resource for self-guided learning.


 https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race?referringSource=articleShare 

Fabulous Self-Study Module - The Stages of Becoming an Anti-Racist

The Whiteness Study Group will soon begin a monthly online discussion based on the stages of becoming an Anti-Racist as identified in the following link.  Open it - explore - go at your own pace.  Watch for updated information on this new AMM series!


 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PrAq4iBNb4nVIcTsLcNlW8zjaQXBLkWayL8EaPlh0bc/preview?pru=AAABcrY-m6Q*5-8-1SCdwoOXkzoNhbSKmw 

Checkout AMM Books on Racism/email: info@abqfriends.org

BooksWhitenessRacism2020.docx (pdf)

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articles of interest on whiteness/anti-racism

Denormalizing Whiteness for Racial Justice from FGC

Posts on Whiteness and Racial Justice from AFC Acting in Faith plus

10 More things to Watch/Read/Listen to About Whiteness

Workshops and Activities about Whiteness

Examining Whiteness: An Anti-Racist Curriculum

Whiteness & Racial Justice

Queries for Worship Sharing

Where to go from here

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LINKS TO ARTICLES OF INTEREST ON RACISM/WHITENESS

New York Times 1619 Project

White Fragility with Robin Di-Angelo

New York Times article on Whiteness

  Click on this link to obtain a fully copy of the New York Times 1619 Project:


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

New York Times article on Whiteness

White Fragility with Robin Di-Angelo

New York Times article on Whiteness

  Click on this link to access 2018 article on Whiteness.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/white-people-are-noticing-something-new-their-own-whiteness.html

White Fragility with Robin Di-Angelo

White Fragility with Robin Di-Angelo

White Fragility with Robin Di-Angelo

Follow this link for information on White Fragility (Robin Di-Angelo's book, which is in the AMM library)

 https://www.theconsciouskid.org/white-fragility 

Anti-Racism Defined

White Fragility is Racial Violence

White Fragility with Robin Di-Angelo

This link to the University of Calgary site on Anti-Racism Education provides a definition of Anti-Racism.

 http://www.aclrc.com/antiracism-defined 

Understanding Whiteness

White Fragility is Racial Violence

White Fragility is Racial Violence

This link to the University of Calgary site on Anti-Racism Education provides information on Whiteness.

 http://www.aclrc.com/whiteness 

White Fragility is Racial Violence

White Fragility is Racial Violence

White Fragility is Racial Violence

This is an interesting article from the Huffington Post.

 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-fragility-is-racial_b_8151054 

MORE ARTICLES OF INTEREST ON RACISM/WHITENESS

Linguistics of White Supremacy and How White Liberals Perpetuate Racism

People of Color are in an Abusive Relationship with White America - Daily Kos

People of Color are in an Abusive Relationship with White America - Daily Kos

 https://notesfromanaspiringhumanitarian.com/the-subtle-linguistics-of-white-supremacy-and-10-ways-white-liberals-perpetuate-racism-blogs-you-should-read/ 

People of Color are in an Abusive Relationship with White America - Daily Kos

People of Color are in an Abusive Relationship with White America - Daily Kos

People of Color are in an Abusive Relationship with White America - Daily Kos

 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/9/8/1419445/-How-White-America-Emotionally-Abuses-Black-People 

Discussion Guide to Deconstructing White Privilege with Robin DiAngelo

People of Color are in an Abusive Relationship with White America - Daily Kos

Discussion Guide to Deconstructing White Privilege with Robin DiAngelo

The following link takes you both to a discussion guide to Robin Di-Angelo's video (included below on this page), as well as a link to the video itself.

 http://www.gcorr.org/deconstruction-white-privilege-a-discussion-guide/ 


How to be a real Anti-Racist Ally

Waking Up in a White Garden from the Friends' Journal

Discussion Guide to Deconstructing White Privilege with Robin DiAngelo

 https://www.alternet.org/2015/04/11-things-white-people-can-do-be-real-anti-racist-allies/ 

Race Related - NYT Magazine

Waking Up in a White Garden from the Friends' Journal

Waking Up in a White Garden from the Friends' Journal

Subscribe to the Free weekly NYT news magazine on race:

https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/race

Waking Up in a White Garden from the Friends' Journal

Waking Up in a White Garden from the Friends' Journal

Waking Up in a White Garden from the Friends' Journal

 https://www.friendsjournal.org/white-garden/ 

2019-2020 MATERIALS ON WHITENESS, ANTI-RACISM

Layla F. Asaad on White Women & White Supremacy - Part 1

Layla F. Asaad on White Women & White Supremacy - Part 2

Layla F. Asaad on White Women & White Supremacy - Part 2

 Open this link to learn more about White Women & White Supremacy through the work of Layla Saad, author of Me and White Supremacy, Source Books, 2020.

http://laylafsaad.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-1

Layla F. Asaad on White Women & White Supremacy - Part 2

Layla F. Asaad on White Women & White Supremacy - Part 2

Layla F. Asaad on White Women & White Supremacy - Part 2

 Open this link to Part 2 of Layla Saad's open letter about White Women & White Supremacy.     

http://laylafsaad.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-2

Friends Journal - Slavery in the Quaker World

Layla F. Asaad on White Women & White Supremacy - Part 2

Friends Journal - Slavery in the Quaker World

This informative and thought provoking article from the September 2019 issue of Friends Journal reviews the history of slave holding and selling among early Friends.  Katherine Gerbner is author of Christian Slavery:  Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World,University of Pa. Press 2018.  

Gerbner writes, "Looking carefully at this Quaker past can teach us a lesson about social justice. It shows us that it’s not enough to be radical; we also have to be vigilantly aware of history and the complexities of inequality. It’s not enough to have good intentions. We must be critically engaged with the past to understand the influence it continues to exert in the present. "

 https://www.friendsjournal.org/slavery-in-the-quaker-world/

Friends Journal - Antiracism with Friends

Friends Journal - Antiracism with Friends

Friends Journal - Slavery in the Quaker World

The following link takes you to a number of relevant articles on the topic of whiteness and racism within Friends written by Vanessa Juyle, Coordinator of FGC's Ministry on Racism and co-author, with Donna McDaniel, of the groundbreaking work, Fit For Freedom, Not Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, Quaker Press, 2009.

 https://www.friendsjournal.org/search/Vanessa+Julye 

Healing Racism 3 Part Series

Friends Journal - Antiracism with Friends

Healing Racism 3 Part Series

 Follow this link from Sounds True to participate in a 3-Part Training Series titled HEALING RACISM with Dr. Tiffany Jana, moderated by Sounds True founder, Tami Simon.  Each series is an hour-long.  Quite informative and approachable.   FREE.

 https://product.soundstrue.com/walking-together/?utm_campaign=S200824-WT-Announcement%20(WExrF9)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Customer%20Service&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJsaXpAc3Rvcnljb25uZWN0aW9uLmNvbSIsICJrbF9jb21wYW55X2lkIjogIkpNRGdhcSJ9 

365 Brothers Podcast

Friends Journal - Antiracism with Friends

Healing Racism 3 Part Series

Join Rahbin Shyne in her groundbreaking 365 Brothers Podcast in which she interviews Black men, gathering & sharing their stories.  In her own words:  


I woke up one morning and realized that I only learned the names, the stories of Black men after tragedy or due to celebrity. Black men’s lives are larger than sound bites, tropes, or reinforced stereotypes. 


Join me as I engage 365 Brothers in an intimate, meaningful conversation about their lives. I’ll ask each guest, each Brother, the same eleven questions. We’ll discover their names, their stories and the ways they contribute to their families, their communities, this nation and this world.


 https://365brothers.com/ 

Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Note: This letter is also available through the AMM library, currently on the Whteness/Racism shelf.

Letter_Birmingham_Jail (pdf)

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NEW QUAKER SPEAK Video - CONFRONTING WHITE PRIVILEGE

Confronting White Privilege Among Friends

 https://quakerspeak.com/white-privilege/  

videos of interest

Check out this great video on Implicit Bias

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Check out this video on microaggressions

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Join Robin DiAngelo for a very helpful video about white privilege.

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Structural Racism, by John A. Power (Structural Racism Discussion Guide)


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