Educating for Transformations
Welcome to The Race Literacy Institute!
As the U.S. struggles with race relations amid an evolving demographic landscape, the Race Literacy Institute is committed to facilitating transformations that implore reflective learning, require critical thinking, and manage difficult conversations, to dismantle the illusory concept of race.
About Us
The Journey to Race Literacy
Common beliefs and behaviors associated with race and identity are not acquired overnight, they result from years of observed behavior, social conditioning, and exposure to false information. During the journey to become race literate, we unpack these ideologies and behaviors amid the transformations that naturally occur while replacing racialized indoctrinations with accurate historic and scientific knowledge. Each race literacy journey is unique, tempered by its own agenda of uncomfortable truths and challenging dialogues to endure, with every outcome reflective of the time and effort committed to change.
Founding Director
Mentored by thought-leaders in the field of diversity, privilege, racial framing, and anti-racism, the founding director is a human relations scholar-practitioner committed to the advancement of race literacy. From past to present, America's racial illiteracy has represented a norm that benefited the power structures responsible for indoctrinating its false religious, scientific, and historical narratives. Yet while majority-minority relationships evolve to represent a new promise of racial inclusivity, there arises an urgent need to renegotiate educational policies and re-educate America's ideology of race. To that end, Dr. Bacy views race literacy curricula as vital to the future of U.S. race relations, and believes that, "Race literacy should be foundational to all diversity policies, strategies, and interventions currently being implemented. It is the development of race literate individuals, organizations, and institutions that will allow future environments of racial equity to exist naturally, via current learning that relies upon the foresight of ethical, transactional, and transformational leadership."
Mission Statement
In a nation divided by the lived realities of skin color, our mission is to educate for the transformation of knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, and behaviors influenced by the illusory concept of race.