声明多样性、公正和包容

这不是另一个多样性或反种族主义的声明,这是一个收费。我们中的许多人已经泛滥的语句从大学、企业、机构、组织、协会、体育联盟和政府单位。我们明白一些声明作者可能具有良好的意图。其他作者可能使用突然安慰说这样的词“白人至上”、“种族主义”,“种族暴力,”“anti-Blackness”,甚至“种族灭绝”。Still others may settle on words such as "privilege," "equality," etc. Very few of these authoring entities, however, have histories of grappling with these words and the real realities that they reflect. Within the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary project of American Studies, as a field, this has been and will remain our scholarly, pedagogical, and social responsibility. We must think and consider: Who is the audience for these statements? The families of the deceased of state sanctioned killings, border crossings, and institutional violence? The abandoned and exploited communities in which those people lived? The organizations actively working for justice in their names and memories? Or is their audience the institutions of the state responsible in many ways for their deaths? The individual state actors who engaged in the act that resulted in the loss of life or loss of dignity? None of these are readers of these statements. And no statement can bring about justice. Where is the action?

我们承认这些语句,这个电荷的一个正在进行的一系列在美国某些人所说的反黑人压迫,也可以扩展到亚裔情绪与大流行和anti-Latinx情绪由于eugenic-based疾病传媒“人”的担忧。这些只是冰山的技巧,包括但不限于,饥饿的工资,大规模监禁,缺乏公平的卫生保健质量,不公正的法律和政策体系,位移,失败的政治代表,缺乏负担得起的教育,和禁止使用公共娱乐空间,展示的聚会。我们渴望有更多的机会接受报名,招募和雇佣更多的黑人和棕色的研究生和教师专攻种族平等,其工作的目的进一步研究的领域。

这不是一个声明,这是一个收费。关怀,我们假设,是好的。承诺是古灵精怪的做得更好。执行行为的护理是善良的。但改变世界的功能是(n)(在)可克服的任务,必须承担。它开始于认识和“郊游”不公正,的道德想象力改变世界的方式反映在我们的功能,作为一个字段和个人。虽然努力工作一直是最重要的,我们可能没有最初选择这条道路。美国研究的部门,在精神领域,将坚定不移地培养和公开公正进行研究。部门将在生产和提供发人深省的是一致的,具有挑战性的课程,面向公众教育的机会。部门将继续鼓励其成员,无论他们在哪里,他们可以做的东西,不管多小,改变这一现实需要的是最伟大的地方。