Description

Barbara Crain Major and Joseph Barndt bring ninety combined years of experience as community organizers teachers and antiracism trainers in community and church settings to this book In Deconstructing Racism they propose the deconstruction of racisms roots within systems and institutions that have been created both structurally and legally to serve white people

The authors seek to unmask the complexities of racism and the invisible patterns that keep it in place There is no quick fix but they believe racism can be deconstructed and undone In order to do this they identify and address racebased identity history and cultural issues rooted in current systems

Three chapters specifically address societal systems and provide antiracism strategies for community organizers Three chapters address racism as rooted in systems in the church and challenge people of faith to seek racial healing through understanding honest confession true reconciliation and reconstructed church institutions A final chapter outlines a way forward to and through a new era of antiracist reconstruction This way forward includes a new antiracist mission statement a new model of decisionmaking power and new processes for accountability