ABSTRACT

Increasingly, institutions are amplifying work on race equality, in order to engage with movements for Black lives and decolonising. This brings universities into relations with individual and communal issues of whiteness, white fragility and privilege, double and false consciousness, and behavioural code switching. Inside formal structures, built upon cultures and practices that have historical and material legitimacy, engaging with such issues is challenging. The tendency is to engage in formal accreditation, managed through engagement with established methodologies, risk management practices and data reporting. However, this article argues that the dominant articulation of the institution, which has its own inertia, which reinforces whiteness and dissipates radical energy, needs to be re-addressed in projects of decolonising. This situates the communal work of the institution against the development of authentic relationships as a movement of dignity.

摘要

越来越多的机构正在扩大种族平等的工作，以参与黑人生活和非殖民化运动。这使大学与白人、白人的脆弱性和特权、双重和错误意识以及行为准则转换等个人和社区问题相关联。在建立在具有历史和物质合法性的文化和实践之上的正式结构中，处理此类问题具有挑战性。趋势是进行正式认证，通过采用既定方法、风险管理实践和数据报告进行管理。然而，本文认为，该制度的主导性表达需要在非殖民化项目中重新解决，它有自己的惯性，它加强了白人并消散了激进的能量。