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Panel Session

Cultural Competence

Session: You Can’t Handle the Truth: When White “Allies” Lash Out

You Can’t Handle the Truth: When White "Allies" Lash Out

Friday, October 25, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 1501A
Earn 1 CE Hour
Performative allyship–whether from individuals claiming to be anti-racist or from institutions espousing racial justice, functions as hollow rhetoric that blocks any meaningful action. The purpose of this panel is to shed light on performative allyship and the harms of white emotionality on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Upon completion, participants will be able to critique the concepts of safe spaces and allyship and the dangers of social work’s failure to recognize and address how performative allyship harms people of color.
  2. Upon completion, participants will be able to use critical race perspectives to identify how the manifestations of whiteness impede attempts at creating safe spaces in the Academy.
  3. Upon completion, participants will be able to identify strategies to participate in anti-racist spaces as co-conspirators for liberation.