Happy Labor Day weekend — I hope you’re getting a chance to rest. Not to disrupt that break, but a few announcements:
- Discussion forum questions are live: This week, we’re reading two chapters that critique racial perspectives and design practices that marginalize people. Ibrahim X. Kendi writes defines and explores assimilationist, segregationalist, and antiracist and how they work in Black and white communities. Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/their) examines design practices that might seem inclusive on the surface, but that reproduce exclusionary strategies and keep people who are at the margins out of the center of the design process.
- I’ve put Costanza-Chock on Perusall, and I encourage you to use it, especially in discussion p. 98-99 (and in the critiques from p. 81 onward). I’m not able to Kendi on Perusall because it’s library access.
- Shan, Carol & Chris will be leading discussion this week
No class Monday. Monday is a holiday. Sleep in! See you Wednesday.