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Plan, evaluate, facilitate in nonprofit industrial complex, w/ anti-racially gendered capitalism orientation. @jdlaing principal

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Joined September 2014
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"Navigating Challenges and Elevating Recognition for Black Artists" by Jourdan Hicks Read about the Think Tank conversation that Pgh artists came together for aimed to unravel the path to artistic success in Pittsburgh. Hosted at Emerald City. boomuniverse.co/blog/navigat…
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I just donated to help elect @Redwood4Council and put people over profits in Allegheny County. Will you join me in helping to elect Carl RedRedwood Redwood? RedwoodForCouncil.com/Donate…
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“New post: Experimenting with Experiment: Using Freire’s dialectic to create projects that ‘Elevate Equity’” hillombo.net/blog/freires-di…
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Short piece on applying #Freire, utilization focused #evaluation & the equitable eval framework of @equitableeval in a participatory eval of intersections of #artseducation & #philanthropy "Putting Evaluation in the Mix: Freire, Youth, Arts, and Equity" hillombo.net/blog/putting-ev…
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This then could be used to look at how nonprofit institutions perpetuate Carter G. Woodson's "The Miseducation of the Negro", @MarimbaAni's "Utamawazo" (mind control for Euro domination of African ppl), Gramsci's "hegemony" or Freire's notion of "immersion"
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This then takes it beyond evaluations looking for a smoking gun or clear acts of discrimination and into more radical frameworks looking at "social reproduction" and opportunities to engage in narrative struggle to disrupt this more subtle dynamic. Please check the post out!
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A thread on a dynamic we think gives insight into how the #nonprofit industrial complex contributes to Black people’s #oppression, and a way to code for it in #evaluation work: “the reproduction of White group dominance (RWGD) through text and talk.”
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In other words, this silence or absence is critical to the RWGD and speaks volumes. These silences need to be coded or otherwise named in evaluations interested in being #antiracist, anti-oppression, and/or #critical.
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The Teun A. Van Dijk work cited above comes from “Analyzing racism through discourse analysis: Some methodological reflections come from “Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods” edited by John H. Stanfield II and Rutledge M. Dennis.
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