A space to think about anti-racist practice

On Friday, 16 October 2020, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Office for Inclusivity & Change (OIC) will be hosting a think space on anti-racist practice.

This is the fifth think space in the OIC’s series, which began on 6 March. The first think space was titled “Where are we?”, the second “Intersections”, the third “Beyond Diversity” and the fourth “Queering Praxis”. The final think space is scheduled to take place on 4 December 2020.

The think space is a reading group that explores how inequalities and power disparities play out in higher education, and the implications these can have on teaching, learning and research. It is open to all, whether you are in or beyond the bounds of the university.

Participants are encouraged to engage with readings in advance and select one passage from each reading that they would like to discuss. Suggested readings for this think space are:

• Achieving Our Humanity: The idea of the postracial future (Emmanuel C Eze, 2001)
• “Decolonization is not a metaphor” (Eve Tuck and K Wayne Young, 2012).

Date: Friday, 16 October 2020

Time: 14:00 to 16:00

Platform: Microsoft Teams

To RSVP and participate, please email the OIC’s stream leader for inclusivity capacity building, Gabriel Khan. Once you’ve RSVP’d, you will receive a participation link, as well as a link to download the readings.