Reimagine research as a tool for racial justice

Historically and currently, research has been framed as an objective process and has been used to harm communities, justify racial inequities, and uphold oppressive systems. These research practices are used to inform and set policy, allocate critical resources, inform culture and values systems, and contribute to narratives that impact the material conditions of our lives.

However, communities have engaged with a range of research methods that are rooted in liberatory movement practices. By Reimaging Research as a tool or tactic in a larger racial justice strategy, research has and can contribute to racial equity movement basebuilding, community power building, uplifting and shifting our understanding of social issues, and serve as an incubator for imaging solutions to enact grassroots experimentation, community-driven innovations, and building towards the world we want to see.

This training will introduce frameworks for using research towards racial justice by centering community needs, movement strategies, anti-racist and liberatory approaches, values- and goals-driven research protocol, and by offering collaborative research methods for community and movement power building and action.

By the end of this training, participants will:

• Build deeper reflective racial equity practice as researchers,
• Apply a values-driven action research framework that draws from movement strategies,
• Translate values to principles to tangible practices across methods and during different stages of the research process.
• Discuss and apply anti-racist and liberatory research ethics and principles, tools, and resources for critical methodologies, and
• Discuss and apply new insights for the role of research in contributing to building community power and impacting the material conditions for those most impacted by oppressive systems.

This interactive training on Reimagining Research for Racial Justice is for racial justice practitioners in communities and organizations looking to engage in research, liberatory action researchers, and those looking to apply critical racial justice and grassroots movement frameworks to research practice.

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Sliding Scale Ticket Model

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Zoom Use:

Please note that you will need to be able to access zoom in order to participate in this training. We are unable to accommodate dial-in only participation at this time.

Access Needs

If you are registering for this event and have any access needs, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/PjFMZA2bYVkJZH6JA We are currently able to offer ASL interpreters and Live Captioning for our training sessions.

Where’s my access link?

Zoom link and pre-training materials will be sent out a week prior to the scheduled training date via Eventbrite, noreply@event.eventbrite.com. We encourage all participants to add noreply@event.eventbrite.com to their safe-sender list to ensure that materials regarding this training are not being blocked. If you don’t have access to your Zoom link or encounter problems with registration within one week of the scheduled training date, we ask that you first check your spam folder. If you cannot find your zoom link please email the BRE team at bre@raceforward.org.

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Scholarships:

We offer scholarships to grassroots organizers and community organizations. If you need a scholarship please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/82yieAu8cKBgbhbx9

Space:

We have limited space in our virtual training as we believe it is critical for our participants to be able to receive tailored support and coaching throughout the duration of our virtual training session.

AI Notetaking:

AI notetaking tools are prohibited and will be removed. Participants are expected to rely on traditional methods of notetaking to ensure the confidentiality and security of the training spaces. Please let us know if this presents a challenge around accessibility and we are happy to work with you to find a solution around this. You may submit an accessibility request using this link.

For all other questions, please email bre@raceforward.org.