Unlearning Racism

The YWCA provides Unlearning Racism Workshops as a forum for participants to discover conscious and unconscious ways that racism has impacted their lives. This powerful program is designed to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of differences. The workshops are scheduled quarterly and upon request from groups, organizations, or businesses.

Unlearning Racism I: The workshop includes a facilitator guided viewing of the 90-minute film, The Color of Fear. The Color of Fear is an insightful, ground-breaking film about the state of race relations in America as seen through the eyes of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino, and African descent. In a series of intelligent, emotional and dramatic confrontations, the men reveal the pain and scars that racism has caused them. What emerges is a deeper sense of understanding and trust. This is the dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.

Unlearning Racism II: The workshop includes a facilitator guided viewing of the 90-minute film, Last Chance for Eden: a documentary about eight men and women discussing the issues of racism and sexism in the workplace. They examine the impact of society’s stereotypes on their lives in the workplace, in their personal relationships, within their families and in their communities. In the course of their dialogue, they also explore the differences and similarities between racism and sexism - an area that has seldom been researched, but has heatedly become a very important issue needing to be understood and dealt with.

Upcoming Workshop Dates
No worshops are currently scheduled. View our upcoming events for upcoming racial justice workshops.

All Racial Justice workshops are held at the YWCA Empowerment Center at 3101 Latham Drive.

Click here to register online or call Kristy at 608-257-1436 to register by phone.

For more information contact Colleen Butler.