Anti-racism update 6.5.25

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AR QUIZ

  • What were the Zoot Suit Riots? 

EDUCATION

  • Listen to Author Patty Krawec, author of Becoming Kin in this podcast with Kelly Hayes as they discuss “We Can Survive Together by Becoming Kin.” In this episode of “Movement Memos,” Krawec and host Kelly Hayes discuss decolonization, and how activists and organizers can redefine their relationships with the land, and with each other. https://truthout.org/audio/we-can-survive-together-by-becoming-kin/ 
  • Read the Race to Equity 10 Year Report for Dane County: Education. This report summarizes key findings for education in Dane County and Wisconsin for Youth by race and ethnicity ranging from disparities in reading level and math scores to bright spots, such as community organizations like Mentoring Positives and Black Girl Magic. Recommendations are included from Kids Forward.  https://kidsforward.org/assets/Race-to-Equity-10-Year_Education.pdf 
  • Would you like to help address the education disparities in Madison and Wisconsin? Consider joining MOSES’ Racial Justice for All Children Task Force. Contact Shel Gross, who Chairs the task force, for information about what they are doing.

AR QUIZ ANSWER

  • The Zoot Suit Riots began in Los Angeles in June 1943. On June 3, 1943, white U.S. servicemen and police officers descended upon a majority-Mexican American neighborhood in East Los Angeles, California, and harassed, beat, and detained hundreds of Mexican American youth. Driven by changing population demographics and racism, tensions in Los Angeles between “zoot suiters,” young Mexican American youth who often wore “zoot suits” (a type of oversize suit which was tapered at the ankles and often worn by Black jazz musicians). Though the anger had initially only been at those in Zoot suits, the attacks which followed were aimed at the Mexican American community at large. Learn more here: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/zoot-suit-riots/ 

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