Lifespan Anti Racism Introduction
Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages and Identities
This long term project, in response to the Commission on Institutional Change’s report, Widening the Circle of Concern, in which it is recommended that an “OWL–like" (lifespan) curriculum on antiracism is developed, will construct multimedia “playlists" for various age groups (K-adult).
Program Goals
Facilitation for Transformation For Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression/Multicultural Curricula and Small Groups
This course is designed to help facilitators of Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression/Multicultural curricula and groups develop skills to facilitate in a way that decreases harm and promotes transformation.
- To collaboratively develop a series of modular playlist-formatted lessons for each age group.
- To create lessons that will be relevant to the aims of faith development for each age group, as well as to our growing understanding of best practices and justice centered parlance that arise out of BIPOC movements to decolonize and decenter whiteness.
- To create lessons with virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning environments in mind.
- To maintain a cohesion with the various other projects within the Mosaic brand.
How to Access
The entire curriculum will become available once you have completed the facilitator training.
Free for Mosaic facilitators with coupon code: mosaic.
(Note: you need to create a free user account before registering for the training.)
Available Lessons
K-1
- Race, Color and Nationality - What Does It Mean?
- I'm unique, you're unique and we are all beautiful
- Why it's okay to talk about race
- What about me makes me special: my body, my culture, my experiences
- Teamwork makes the dream work: building Beloved Community wherever we are
- Exploring Our Feelings: how do our emotions make our bodies feel?
- Kindness with boundaries
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
2-3
- Identifying, Naming and Sharing our racial, skin color, and cultural identities
- Identifying, Naming and Sharing our identities outside of race & skin color
- Celebrating our differences
- Cultures are not costumes
- Naming and expressing our feeling in situations of injustice: harnessing our feelings to move towards justice
- Kindness and boundaries build the Beloved Community
- What is "Black Lives Matter" and why is it important to Unitarian Universalists?
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
4-5
- Identifying, Naming and Sharing our racial, skin color, and cultural identities
- Identifying, Naming and Sharing our identities outside of race & skin color
- Celebrating our differences
Middle School
- What are the characteristics of white supremacy culture
- Recognizing racialized bullying
- When bias and stereotypes show up in people we love
- When one culture has more power than another
- What is colonialism & how do we decolonize?
- Power and democracy: grassroots organizing, media literacy, and the system (locally, nationally, internationally)
- The Paradox of Tolerance: Holding each other accountable with love
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
High School
- White supremacy culture vs white supremacism
- How white supremacy culture shows up in ourselves and in our communities
- Finding allies and accomplices: don't do the work of anti-racism alone
- When one culture has more power than another
- What is colonialism & how is it alive today?
- Amen to uprising: advocacy and power for teens fighting racial injustice
- What is the history of policing and the carceral system? What ways can we reduce the power of policing?
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
Emerging Adult
- What is the history of racism and anti-Blackness in Unitarian Universalism
- Mixing & huddling: the importance of racial identity spaces within Unitarian Universalism
- What would it take to co-create an explicitly anti-racist Unitarian Universalism?
- What is embodied spirituality, and how does it help us on our anti-racism journey
- UU values and civic participation: following prophetic leadership
- Tactics and discourse: Engaging in conversations across ideological differences
- Antiracist UU Values and Theology: history and philosophy
- Recognizing class-based assumptions and culture within UUism
- Contemporary theological ideas that support anti-racism work
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
BIPOC
- Mixing & huddling: the importance of racial identity spaces within Unitarian Universalism
- How has the history of white supremecy culture in Unitarian Universalist spaces continue to show up and impact IBPOC?
- What would it take for you to be able to bring your full self to Unitarian Universalist spaces?
- Are we able to recognize and identify when we as BIPoC are uplifting and holding onto white supremecy culture?
- How do we, as BIPOC, identify and center our own cultures and lived experiences & support one another?
- Confronting White Entitlement and Microaggressions
- History of anti-racism work within the UU Faith
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
General Adults
- Mixing & huddling: the importance of racial identity spaces within Unitarian Universalism
- What is the history of racism and anti-Blackness in Unitarian Universalism
- What would we need to change about ourselves to co-create an explicitly anti-racist Unitarian Universalism?
- What is white entitlement? How does it show up in ourselves and our communities?
- Reparations: addressing historical and contemporary wrongs
- What is the history of policing and the carceral system, and why it conflicts with our UU values
- Confronting our fears about the abolition of policing
- Beyond policing and the carceral system: joining the struggle for a safer future for all
- Exploring the history of colonization and genocide of Indigenous people
- Living cultures: Indigenous contemporary realities and the ongoing effects of colonization and erasure
- Appropriation vs appreciation: how to create authentic cultural sharing
- Antiracist UU Values and Theology: history and philosophy
- Recognizing class-based assumptions and culture within UUism
- Creative Jam: imagine the Beloved Community
Acknowledgements
This project could not have been completed without the time and talent of the following:
- The Mosaic Lifespan Curriculum Advisory Team: Katharine Childs, Katie Resendiz de Perez, Rayla Mattson, & Jes Hunt
- Project Developmental Editor: Marisol Caballero, Faith Innovation Specialist, Office of Lifespan Faith Engagement, UUA
- Project Copyeditor: Helen Rose
- Lifespan Faith Engagement Staff Consultants:
- Jennica Davis-Hockett
- Susan Dana Lawrence
- Nico Van Ostrand
- Lesson Contributors:
- Kierstin Homblette Allen
- Leonisa Ardizzone
- JeKaren Bell
- Aun-Drey Brown
- Adena Dannouf
- Dayna Edwards
- Esperanza Garza
- Rayven Holmes
- Jes Hunt
- Chris Johns
- Ayanna Kafi
- Chelsea Krafka
- Sara Krakauer
- Sahar Muhsin Laufman
- Abby L'Bert
- Leslie Massicotte
- Gwen Matthews
- Melody Moberg
- Helen Rose
- Betty-Jeanne Rueters Ward
- Emmie Schlobohm
- Kristin Schumacher
- Julian Soto