A powerful and proven guidebook that shows organizations how to recognize racism in designed artifacts, systems, and experiences--and how to replace them with anti-racist design solutions. Anti-racist design interventions can be difficult. Well-intentioned conversations can fuel tensions, activate racialized trauma, and lead to misunderstandings, especially in spaces not typically focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Even when progress is made, white supremacy culture can resurface. We need anti-racist guidelines and approaches that lay bare racialized systems of oppression and fundamentally disrupt their replication. In
Racism Untaught, Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses, two veteran anti-racist educators, deliver this exact approach.
Mercer and Moses provide a step-by-step guide to anti-racist interventions in academic, business, and community settings that benefits all participants. Adapted from their successful workshop series and filled with concrete examples and ample case studies, their book teaches participants how to analyze design--and reimagine racialized artifacts, systems, and experiences guided by anti-oppressive principles. They demonstrate how to examine positionality within the context of racism and oppression; help us understand how design can reinforce and perpetuate oppression; and reveal the unique relationship among equity, ethics, and responsibility that constitutes the core value of an anti-racist design discipline. In
Racism Untaught, Mercer and Moses provide the framework we need to unlearn racialized design practices and move more generatively toward collective liberation.
With a foreword by renowned designer Cheryl D. Miller,
Racism Untaught is a valuable tool for anyone who wants to help themselves and their organization create an actionable and inclusive plan to dismantle racial oppression and instead realize equitable, anti-racist, and liberatory design.
一本強大且經過驗證的指南，向組織展示如何識別設計物件、系統和體驗中的種族主義，以及如何用反種族主義的設計解決方案取而代之。
反種族主義的設計介入可能會很困難。善意的對話可能會加劇緊張，激活種族化的創傷，並導致誤解，尤其是在那些通常不專注於多樣性、公平和包容性的空間中。即使取得進展，白人至上文化也可能會重新浮現。我們需要反種族主義的指導方針和方法，揭示種族化的壓迫系統，並根本上打破其重複。在《Racism Untaught》中，兩位資深的反種族主義教育者Lisa E. Mercer和Terresa Moses提供了這種方法。
Mercer和Moses提供了一個逐步指南，針對學術、商業和社區環境中的反種族主義介入，讓所有參與者受益。這本書改編自他們成功的工作坊系列，充滿具體的例子和豐富的案例研究，教導參與者如何分析設計，並根據反壓迫原則重新想像種族化的物件、系統和體驗。他們展示了如何在種族主義和壓迫的背景下檢視位置性；幫助我們理解設計如何強化和延續壓迫；並揭示公平、倫理和責任之間的獨特關係，這構成了反種族主義設計學科的核心價值。在《Racism Untaught》中，Mercer和Moses提供了我們需要的框架，以去學習種族化的設計實踐，並更具生產性地朝向集體解放邁進。
本書由知名設計師Cheryl D. Miller撰寫前言，《Racism Untaught》是任何希望幫助自己和其組織制定可行且包容計劃，以拆解種族壓迫，並實現公平、反種族主義和解放設計的寶貴工具。
Lisa E. Mercer is Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Design for Responsible Innovation at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Terresa Moses is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota and the Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt.
