Strategizing Against Liberal White Supremacy: A Community Workshop with Dr. Angie Beeman

Thursday, May 9, 2024 | 6pm-8pm Carl Maxey Center, 3114 E. 5th Avenue, Spokane

How do liberal European Americans reinforce inequality and what actions can they take to meaningfully advance racial justice?

• White participants in this interactive workshop will learn key terms, engage in self-reflection, and identify ways to break out of paralysis and disempowerment to be a more effective ally for racial and economic justice.
• BIPOC participants at Dr. Beeman’s workshops find validation in their experiences and gain vocabulary as well as tools to address liberal white supremacy.

Dr. Angie Beeman will discuss how white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. Drawing from her academic expertise and experience as well as her personal life growing up in a working class family in Appalachia with a Korean American mother and white father, Dr. Beeman brings a race-class perspective to offer analysis and strategies. Rather than downplaying racism in favor of a class-centered approach or taking a talk-centered approach to racism without developing explicit actions to challenge it, Dr. Beeman will advance action-oriented and racism-centered intersectional approaches.

Registration is required. To register, please visit https://pjals.org/beeman