(Name-mce) ListServ Facing Race March 22-24, 2007 New York City, NY

[Anselmo Villanueva]

Facing Race 2007: Define Justice, Make Change

March 22-24, 2007  New York City, NY

The Facing Race Conference will bring together key policy advocates,
academics, researchers, organizers and activists interested in
exploring innovative strategies and successful models for changing
public policy to produce more racial equity.

The persistence of deep racial disparities in an array of areas—such
as education, employment, health care and housing—points to the need
for more strategies and new policies to address systemic inequities.
>From the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast to the creation of a new
immigration system, questions of racial justice dominate debates in
academia, government and the media this year and into the future. With
our conference, we hope to unite our movement by building bridges
across issues and communities to amplify the concerns of communities
of color in the intellectual, policy and popular debates that lie
ahead.

For more information: http://www.arc.org/content/view/487/111/

The Applied Research Center

Advancing racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism.

Conflict at the Color Line

America's racial fault lines run deep. From dramatic disparities in
health and education to debates over immigration and national
security, racial identities critically inform our understanding of
politics and culture. Despite this reality, the public dialogue on
race is often cut short or silenced altogether. The Applied Research
Center (ARC) understands that pressing political conflicts demand a
serious treatment of racial equity that addresses both a history of
injustice and contemporary problems. We see racism, and demand
concrete change from our most powerful public institutions to build a
fair and equal society.

Shared Values, New Vision

Racial equity, once defined by the shared values of fairness and
morality, is too often taken for granted. As a result, a discussion of
racism has emerged focused narrowly on individual acts of malice. At
ARC we recognize that racism deeply affects individuals and their life
chances, but we also know that racism rarely works through
individuals. As long as the systems, structures and unconscious
motivations that shape racism are obscured racism will remain embedded
in the fabric of society and transcend even our best individual
intentions. ARC leads with an innovative analysis that challenges the
structures that quietly perpetuate racism.

Racial Justice in the 21st Century

ARC's vision for racial justice is changing the way our society talks
about and understands racial inequity. ARC conducts research to expose
the subtle racism of laws and regulations that result in real hardship
for Black, Latino, Asian and Native communities. We use public policy
as a key tool to repair these historic injustices by designing and
implementing creative solutions to contemporary problems. Through
advocacy leadership we train a new cadre of journalists, community
organizers and elected officials to make these solutions real.
Finally, ARC works through journalism and the mass media to push a
society silenced by guilt and confusion toward a real discussion of
racial justice in the 21st century.