Race Forward

Race Forward

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

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]

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]

References

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2. "WE CATALYZE MOVEMENTS TO ADVANCE THE VISION OF A MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY". Race Forward. August 6, 2024. Retrieved August 6, 2024.
3. Bernard, Riese (10 November 2013). "Colorlines' Applied Research Center Races Forward By Becoming 'Race Forward'". Autostraddle. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
4. Walljasper, Jay (January 1996). "Celebrating Hellraisers: Gary Delgado". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
5. "Rinku Sen". Facing Race: A National Conference. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
6. "Possibility and Scale: The Merger of Race Forward and CSI". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
7. "Talking about race". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
8. "Envisioning and Enacting Racial Justice: Rinku Sen the Force Behind Race Forward". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
9. "Millennials don't know how to talk about race, and that's a problem". PBS NewsHour. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
10. SEN, RINKU (2003). "Who's Got the Power? Resolving the grassroots-intermediary rift". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 10 (1): 26–56. ISSN   1532-2874. JSTOR   41554366.
11. "OPINION: For police accountability, look beyond individual racial bias". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
12. Sullivan, John (2011). "African Americans Moving South — and to the Suburbs". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 18 (2): 19. ISSN   1532-2874. JSTOR   41554768.
13. Arnold, Eric K. (2017). "The BLM Effect: Hashtags, History and Race". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 21 (2): 10. ISSN   1532-2874. JSTOR   44687751.
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16. Duncan, Garrett Albert (2000). "Urban Pedagogies and the Celling of Adolescents of Color". Social Justice. 27 (3 (81)): 41. ISSN   1043-1578. JSTOR   29767228.
17. Epstein, Kitty Kelly (2005). "The Whitening of the American Teaching Force: A Problem of Recruitment or a Problem of Racism?". Social Justice. 32 (3 (101)): 100. ISSN   1043-1578. JSTOR   29768323.
18. Thompson, Gail L.; Allen, Tawannah G. (2012). "Four Effects of the High-Stakes Testing Movement on African American K-12 Students". The Journal of Negro Education. 81 (3): 226. doi:10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218. ISSN   0022-2984. JSTOR   10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218. S2CID   140809345.
19. VOLANTE, LOUIS (2008). "Equity in Multicultural Student Assessment". The Journal of Educational Thought. 42 (1): 23. ISSN   0022-0701. JSTOR   23765469.
20. Delgado, Gary (2004). "Recruitment of Advocacy Researchers". Journal of Public Affairs Education. 10 (2): 170. ISSN   1523-6803. JSTOR   40215653.
21. Shaw, Kathleen M. (2003-12-19). "Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy". The Journal of Higher Education. 75 (1): 76. doi:10.1353/jhe.2003.0053. ISSN   1538-4640. S2CID   142848215.
22. Monroe, Carla R. (2005). "Why Are "Bad Boys" Always Black? Causes of Disproportionality in School Discipline and Recommendations for Change". The Clearing House. 79 (1): 49. doi:10.3200/TCHS.79.1.45-50. ISSN   0009-8655. JSTOR   30182106. S2CID   144663143.
23. "Multiracial Formations | The Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project". www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
24. Bond-Graham, Darwin; Liu, Yvonne Yen (2012). "Communities of Color Organize against Urban Land Grabs". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 19 (1): 66. ISSN   1532-2874. JSTOR   41762547.
25. Kanny, M. Allison; Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Johnston, Marc P. (2015-05-18). "Examining the Significance of "Race" in College Students' Identity Within a "Postracial" Era". Journal of College Student Development. 56 (3): 241. doi:10.1353/csd.2015.0023. ISSN   1543-3382. S2CID   145801711.
26. Sánchez, Patricia (2014). "Research and Policy: Dignifying Every Day: Policies and Practices That Impact Immigrant Students". Language Arts. 91 (5): 371. ISSN   0360-9170. JSTOR   24575547.
27. Innovation, Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice. "Race Forward Launches Interactive Tool on Race and Gender Employment Inequities". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2019-04-08.