By Justin Laing | December 9, 2022 | Antiracism, Program Summary, Racial Capitalism, Research
Really excited to see Gathering Ground (GG) publishing this “compendium of learning and action” about Elevating Equity (EE)! I was privileged to serve as their partner on EE from July 2021 to July 2022 and a big shout out to the GG team of Elizabeth Murphy, Kacy O’Brien, Jeanette Mitchell,… Read More >
By Justin Laing | January 25, 2021 | Antiracism, Book/Media Review, Racial Capitalism
I read these electronically but they are so good I wanted the actual copies. Beginning in Vol 1 and showing how the British further developed the idea and use of “race” in their “planting” of British people in Ireland in the 12th-13tn century colonializing process (where we in the U.S…. Read More >
By Justin Laing | September 10, 2020 | Antiracism, Critical Philanthropy, Racial Capitalism
I think a lot about “framing”. “Framing” is what we do every day as we position our ideas with a particular rationale and context. It’s how we try to get people to see it “our way” and how others try to get us to see something “their way”. It’s the… Read More >
By Justin Laing | July 30, 2019 | Racial Capitalism
bell hooks is the person I associate with connecting how capital, whiteness and masculinity act in reinforcing ways and I’m getting better at sussing that out. Recently, reading How the White Race Was Invented by Theodore Allen, I came across a historical reference to “manhood suffrage” which, apparently, were the laws… Read More >