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From: Steph Routh, PUGS <te...@pugspdx.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 8:14 AM
Subject: What is Whiteness? 🔍
To: <Rh...@casaoforegon.org>

Interrogating Whiteness Returns October 1

View this email in your browser As a result of this course, my thinking has shifted from thinking about BIPOC people and the challenges they face, to thinking about myself as a white woman and my impact on POC. That's a really new understanding for me. - Interrogating Whiteness participant, July 2020 Look Inside to Build Your Antiracist Capacity The guiding question of this class might be something like: given our varying, horrific, deeply entrenched histories and patterns of racial violence and trauma—histories that continue to operate in us and through us, which we continue to live out moment-to-moment, one generation to the next—given all of this: How can we live together? For white people, such as myself, what might that “living together” require of us? Join us as we once again offer the challenging and inspiring course Interrogating Whiteness: An American Unstory. It starts Thursday, October 1, and will be conducted online. Register Now Instructor Sarah DeYoreo is a writer and educator living in Portland, Oregon. After spending years in traditional academic environments, where she studied the histories and presents of colonization and related forms of systemic violence and exploitation, she left that world to better examine, challenge, and deconstruct her own white racial conditioning. In addition to her work with PUGS, Sarah teaches writing and literature classes with an emphasis on social justice at Clark College and Portland State University. Also coming up at PUGS... Copyright © 2020 Portland Underground Grad School, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in for updates on PUGS course offerings. Our mailing address is: Portland Underground Grad School 1327 SE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd Portland, Oregon 97214 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.