Race Forward
American nonprofit racial justice organization
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Race Forward is a nonprofit racial justice organization with offices in Oakland, California, and New York City.[1] It defines its mission as "[helping] people take effective action toward racial equity."[2]
Rinku Sen (2006-2017)
Gary Delgado (1981-2006) | |
| Formation | 1981 |
|---|---|
| Type | 501(c)(3) |
| Purpose | Racial justice, civil rights |
Director | Glenn Harris (2017 - present)
Rinku Sen (2006-2017) Gary Delgado (1981-2006) |
| Website | www.raceforward.org |
Formerly called | The Applied Research Center |
History
Race Forward was founded by Gary Delgado in 1981, and was known as the Applied Research Center until 2013.[3][4] Delgado remained in leadership until 2006, after which point Rinku Sen became executive director.[5] In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion and is now under the leadership of Glenn Harris, former President of the Center for Social Inclusion.[6] Rinku Sen remained with the organization as a Senior Strategist.[5]
Activities
Race Forward describes itself as advancing the advance of racial justice through research, media, and leadership development.[7] Speaking to NBC in 2015, Executive Director Rinku Sen further characterized Race Forward as focusing on finding ways to re-articulate racism to draw attention to systemic racism.[8] According to Gary Deglado, its work is based on an intersectional understanding of race and the impact of racism alongside other social issues.[3]
In 2015, Race Forward explained its three principles as the use of specific and plain talk to say what you mean about race issues; the focus on impact rather than intention; and the use of strategic terms as well as moral arguments.[7] The organization has published research reports and editorials on issues such as millennials and their attitudes towards race, environmental issues and grassroots organizing, race and religion, and police accountability.[9][10][11] John Sullivan, a research associate with Race Forward, has described the organization's research on community demographics and shifting populations of Black communities as a tool to understand and support community organizing efforts.[12]
Race Forward has endorsed the Movement for Black Lives.[13]
Publications
Publications from Race Forward include:
- Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990s (1994)[14]
- Deliberate Disadvantage: A Case Study of Race Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996)[15]
- Education and Race (1998)[16]
- Crisis: How California Teaching Policies Aggravate Racial Inequality in Public Schools (1999)[17]
- Facing the consequences: An examination of racial discrimination in U.S. public schools (2000)[18]
- Racial profiling and punishment in U.S. public schools: How zero tolerance policies and high stakes testing subvert academic excellence and racial equity (2001)[19]
- "Cruel and Usual: How Welfare 'Reform' Punishes Poor People (2001)[20]
- Welfare Reality (2001)[21]
- Mapping the Immigrant Infrastructure (2002)[20]
- Profiled and punished: How San Diego schools undermine Latino and African American student achievement (2002)[22]
- Multiracial Formations (2003)[23]
- Race and Recession (May 2009)[24]
- Don’t call them “Post-Racial”: Millennials’’ attitudes on race, racism, and key systems in our society. (2011)[25]
- Shattered families: The perilous intersection of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system (2011)[26]
- Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit
Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines, published by Executive Director Rinku Sen. Colorlines was initially a magazine, and it transformed into a website in 2010.[8]
In 2015, Race Forward launched an interactive multimedia tool called "Clocking-In," designed to highlight race and gender inequality in service industries.[27]