The mission of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research is to convene researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice.

Antiracist research is an action-oriented paradigm that assumes that racism is maintained within institutions; seeks to dismantle racism using nonracist research methods; and requires that study findings are disseminated to, benefit, and empower the target population.

Jan 7, 2025 · Many departments across the university historically and currently practice anti-racist research by centering non-white identities and perspectives, studying critical theories (e.g., race and feminist), and exploring diverse methodologies - and yet some disciplines and researchers are just beginning. If you're new to this work, consult the ...

The Antiracist Research and Policy Center is an interdisciplinary hub for the research and practice of racial justice and intersectional liberation. We convene scholars, educators, community-based changemakers, cultural workers, and policy advocates in sustainable and equitable collaborations.

An anti-racist approach upholds rigorous ethical standards to ensure that communities are not merely viewed as passive participants to be extracted from. The intent of anti-racist research is to produce knowledge that will benefit and empower communities and respect for the rights, dignity and agency of participants is of central importance.

Foster research and creative scholarship that informs antiracism practice. Address all issues and inequities that manifest from systemic, social, and institutional racism. Recognize that resistance to racism and antiracism strategic, effective, and sustainable commitments and leadership.

At the Center for Antiracist Research, we believe that challenging and uprooting racist policy is the path to social change and racial equity.

The Center for Antiracist Research is a full-service organization that translates antiracist ideas into action by unifying research, policy, narrative, and advocacy efforts. We take a rigorous, research-based, and integrative approach to transforming a racist society to an antiracist one.

Dec 14, 2022 · PHCR was developed to identify, understand, and undo the root causes of racial hierarchies and applies principles from critical race theory (CRT) to antiracist health research.

Our goal is to shift research practices to be more inclusive, less oppressive, and explicitly anti-racist. In this process, we acknowledge the following: Our roles as researchers in higher education are historically problematic.

May 31, 2022 · Antiracist research stems from antiracism and assumes that racism is maintained within institutions, seeks to dismantle racism using nonracist research methods and requires that study findings...

We identify three key areas that require scholarly attention to advance antiracist health policy research: historical context, geographical context, and theory-based novel quantitative and qualitative methods that capture the multifaceted and systemic properties of structural racism as well as other systems of oppression.

Jan 31, 2025 · Boston University has announced its Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), which was founded in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, will close on June 30, with founding director Ibram X ...

Best Practices for the Conduct of Antiracist Research: Time for Formal, Tailored Curricula. JAMA Pediatr. 2022;176(5):437–438. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.6315. Manage citations:

Feb 4, 2025 · Boston University plans to shut down its Center for Antiracist Research and part ways with founder Ibram X. Kendi, ending the once-heralded program amid concerns over his leadership as the ...

Antiracist research is an action-oriented paradigm that assumes that rac-ism is maintained within institutions; seeks to dismantle racism using nonracist re-search methods; and requires that study findings are disseminated to, bene t, and fi empower the target population.

Apr 1, 2021 · Whose research is getting funded, published, and cited? How are psychologists countering racism, challenging research norms, and building bridges as mentors and allies?

The mission of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research is to convene researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice.

ARAO research includes critically examining and resisting policies that oppress and minoritize the populations social work purports to assist, as well as building new systems and structures that value and uplift marginalized voices.

Jan 31, 2025 · Local News BU Center for Antiracist Research set to close as Ibram X. Kendi departs to Howard The center’s staff will be employed by Boston University until the center's charter ends on June 30.

Jan 30, 2025 · In 2020, Kendi moved to Boston University and founded its Center for Antiracist Research amid the racial reckoning that Floyd’s death helped spur. Donations poured in, totaling more than $50 ...

4 days ago · The Center for Antiracist Research produced almost no research, despite millions in funding and dozens of full-time staff. When Kendi was confronted with the evidence, he lashed out in signature fashion, blaming “[r]acist ideas” for the negative coverage. A market for black radicalism has long existed in America.

Mar 11, 2024 · The research was supported by a grant from the American Educational Research Association.-shipman-Note to Editors: The study abstract follows. “A Novel Approach for Evaluating a Schoolwide Antiracist Curriculum Intervention”

Jan 31, 2025 · The Center for Antiracist Research drew attention in September 2023 when it suddenly laid off 19 employees, almost half of its workforce. Kendi said the major layoffs were part of a strategy to ...

Socialist groups have also been closely aligned with a number of anti-racist organizations such as Love Music Hate Racism, Stand Up to Racism, Anti-Nazi League [20] and Unite Against Fascism. [21] ... American University - Antiracist Research and Policy Center; Boston University - Center for Anti-Racist Research, headed by Ibram X. Kendi;

Antiracist research is defined as systematic theorizing, inquiry, intervention development, and program implementation that exposes, rejects, dismantles, and/or remedies racism, colonialism, antisemitism, and xenophobia with the goal of promoting racial justice.

5 days ago · There is a growing interest to address pervasive racist and colonialist practices in global health (GH). However, there is a paucity of information on anti-racist and anti-colonial (ARAC) education for GH trainees. This study aimed to identify curricular strengths and gaps in ARAC content for pediatric, family medicine and emergency medicine trainees participating in …

With white society being conceptualized as "intrinsically racist", "it follows that anti-white racism cannot exist. This is a fundamental article of faith of the new 'anti-racist' catechism." [7] For Daniel Sabbagh, research director at the Center for International Research (CERI) in

Jan 30, 2025 · Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), says he has decided to leave BU to join Howard University in Washington, DC. CAR will close when its charter with the University expires on June 30. BU says the center’s 12 current staff members will remain employed through June 30 and are receiving resources and …

Jan 30, 2025 · Based on my research into migration over the past 30 years I believe that these measures are unlikely to last. There are two linked trends that make closing the borders of the global north ...

Jun 1, 2022 · Read the full Year in Hate report. In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American public.

5 days ago · First, and in line with claims advanced in anti-racist and migrant struggles (Bojadžijev Citation 2012; Karakayali Citation 2018; Nobrega, Quent, and Zipf Citation 2021), the turn to structural conditions and dynamics rejects the common framing of racism as a problem of the “lunatic fringe” or of individual racist acts and beliefs that are ...