Arc.org researches and advocates for racial justice worldwide
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Conflict at the Color Line
America’s racial fault lines run deep. From dramatic disparities in health and education to debates over immigration and national security, racial identities critically inform our understanding of politics and culture. Despite this reality, the public dialogue on race is often cut short or silenced altogether. The Applied Research Center (ARC) understands that pressing political conflicts demand a serious treatment of racial equity that addresses both a history of injustice and contemporary problems. We see racism, and demand concrete change from our most powerful public institutions to build a fair and equal society.
Shared Values, New Vision
Racial equity, once defined by the shared values of fairness and morality, is too often taken for granted. As a result, a discussion of racism has emerged focused narrowly on individual acts of malice. At ARC we recognize that racism deeply affects individuals and their life chances, but we also know that racism rarely works through individuals. As long as the systems, structures and unconscious motivations that shape racism are obscured racism will remain embedded in the fabric of society and transcend even our best individual intentions. ARC leads with an innovative analysis that challenges the structures that quietly perpetuate racism.
Racial Justice in the 21st Century
ARC’s vision for racial justice is changing the way our society talks about and understands racial inequity. ARC conducts research to expose the subtle racism of laws and regulations that result in real hardship for Black, Latino, Asian and Native communities. We use public policy as a key tool to repair these historic injustices by designing and implementing creative solutions to contemporary problems. Through advocacy leadership we train a new cadre of journalists, community organizers and elected officials to make these solutions real. Finally, ARC works through journalism and the mass media to push a society silenced by guilt and confusion toward a real discussion of racial justice in the 21st century.
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