Members of the Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Student Caucus (SAGSC) are dedicated to building our capacity as a group to think about and address anti-Black racism in our department and the experiences of our Black graduate students. As a group, it has been identified that beginning this process starts with ourselves, examining our relationships with whiteness and the ways in which we have been socialized through systems of ongoing and systemic white supremacy. To do so, one approach we have incorporated into our dedication of building our capacities is through holding an Anti-Racism Reading Group. This group meets bi-weekly, and serves as a virtual environment where we come together to discuss the text/resource selected for that meeting.
The SAGSC would like to formally invite any graduate students in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology to join them in their next meeting on Friday, October 30 at 10 a.m. to discuss the reading “My Culture is Not a event_costume: Institutional Practices and Racism” (Beatty and Boettcher 2019).