{"id":82,"date":"2021-04-07T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/?p=82"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:28:38","slug":"literacy-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/literacy-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy Moment &#8211; April 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From our Lunchtime Discussions &#8211; What are racial equity detours?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The detours that white people follow to protect their privilege and avoid the messy work of racial justice\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Detours create an illusion of progress toward equity while cementing or even exacerbating inequity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Detours can be initiatives and strategies that pose little threat to structural racism yet they can consume extensive resources, including those marked for racial equity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Detours relieve us of the responsibility to name and illuminate the ways that racism operates in our workplaces, schools, institutions and communities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our Lunchtime Discussions &#8211; What are racial equity detours? The detours that white people follow to protect their privilege and avoid the messy work of racial justice\u00a0 Detours create an illusion of progress toward equity while cementing or even exacerbating inequity Detours can be initiatives and strategies that pose little threat to structural racism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/literacy-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Literacy Moment &#8211; April 2021<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232838,227540,220464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-opportunity","category-education-resources","category-lunchtime-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}