Thursday, November 21, 12noon-1:30pm, 33 W. 11th Ave. [this event will also be occurring via Zoom]

Social justice organizations often espouse multi-racial solidarity as a value but struggle with putting this value into practice. How can organizations build bonds and extend solidarity to other organizations and activists across different racial identities? In this study, I espouse a theory of racial caucus organizing that discusses the opportunities and challenges of operationalizing solidarity for racial groups within multi-racial coalitions. Importantly, race-based caucuses require more than just making space for people of different identities; rather, they require specific forms of organizational structure. I argue that the process of race-based caucus organizing requires establishing a power-shifting politic and praxis, exchanging resources, and fostering intersectional solidarity within racial groups. The findings in this study arise through a year of relationship building, observation, participation, and in-depth interviewing with Houston in Action (HiA), a non-partisan multi-racial coalition in Houston, Texas.

Presenter

Dr. Elizabeth Jordie Davies, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of California Irvine

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Hosted by Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University.