What are the downsides of anti-racism workshops?
Why is it important to analyze power structure and systems in anti-racism work? What limits diversity and anti-racism training from being successful in the long term?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, anti-racism educator, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism.

In this episode, Jill interviews Sarita Srivastava, author of the book from NYU Press, “Are You Calling Me a Racist”?: Why We Need to Stop Talking About Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change. They discuss some of Sarita’s analysis around some of the limits and failures of diversity and anti-racism training in organizations. Listen as they talk about how to address the pushback against DEI work.

Sarita Srivastava is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, and Director of the Global Centre for Climate Action at OCAD University in Toronto. Her research areas include social movements, race, and emotion. In her prior position as Sociology and Gender Studies professor at Queen’s University, she spent many years teaching and supervising student work in the sociology of race and gender. In her work as an activist, she was director of a national environmental campaign for Greenpeace Canada, active in community radio and environmental education, and supported indigenous, labor, and feminist social movements.

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Get the book: https://nyupress.org/9781479815258/are-you-calling-me-a-racist

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