Educating for Transformations
Welcome to The Race Literacy Institute!
As our nation struggles with race relations amid revolutionary social change, the Race Literacy Institute is committed to ushering ideological transformations that pursue reflective learning, critical discourse, and educational reforms to address 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. Also on the journey, individual transformations occur as revelatory knowledge challenges the untruths inherited from a racialized indoctrination. So, whether you take this journey as a member of our e-learning community or as part of a seminar experience, there will be difficult dialogues with uncomfortable truths to encounter, though not without the rewards of scholarly achievement, the understanding and support of fellow travelers, and the growth inspired by your courage to change.
Founding Director
Mentored by thought-leaders in the field of diversity, privilege, racial framing, and anti-racism, our founding director is a human relations scholar-practitioner committed to the advancement of race literacy. From America's foundation to its present, racial illiteracy has represented the norm throughout society and has benefited from power structures that indoctrinated false religious, scientific, and historical narratives. Yet while majority-minority relationships evolve to represent a new demographic, 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.