Initiatives
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Georgetown established the Racial Justice Institute (RJI) to study racial injustice and the persistent and enduring legacies of racism. At its core, RJI seeks to address the structural causes of inequalities in the United States context and globally. Undoubtedly, understanding and solving the issues resulting from this history (e.g., differences in educational outcomes, health disparities, and civic participation) requires developing a body of work across multiple disciplines, multi-tiered research designs, and methods of engagement. To that end, RJI supports interdisciplinary research and a variety of methodological approaches, seeking to bring together scholars from social sciences, medicine, arts, law and the humanities.
The EnActors
The EnActors is comprised of performing arts professionals and educational developers. It is housed within Georgetown’s Racial Justice Institute and is supported by the Dean’s Office, the Red House, and the CURA Initiative. The EnActors create arts-based educational and social interventions. Pairing short, applied theater performances in a range of genres with facilitated discussions, our programs work to highlight the experience of marginalized individuals, shed light on current and historical inequities, and enhance participants’ abilities to advance equity.
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Innovation Days
As the socio-political climate shifts nationally, there has been a significant impact on social institutions, including education, health, government programs that provide a safety net, and the law. Parts or all of such social institutions are being erased; and with that erasure, there is a vacuum. The needs of the individuals, families, and communities who are served by these social institutions remain. How will we rise to meet the needs of people in our society? The Racial Justice Institute seeks to be a catalyst for scholarship–bringing together Georgetown community scholars across disciplines to create a research agenda that documents the vacuums and reimagines the social institutions. This first convening, Racial Justice and Health: The Role of Medicine, Law, and Public Policy, will explore health in three dimensions – social, civic, and physical.
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Black Folkways
Black Cultural Resiliency: Black Folkways is an oral history research project that spans 3 locations and explores how themes of community building, healing the sick, shared rumors and recipes, and maintenance of family and community legacies weave through the stories and shared histories of communities in the Bahamas, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Washington D.C. This work includes a diverse range of methodologies incorporating oral histories, physical farming objects, recipes collected from Washington D.C. residents, and interactive maps developed alongside the Digital Scholarship & Technology Services Department within the Georgetown Library.
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Transnational Interventions in Racial Inequalities
RJI initiates a multi-year series of symposia and colloquiums with scholars in the areas of Race, Gender, Health and Well-being, Constitutional Law and Structural Inequalities, Cultural Arts, History, Memory, and Reconciliation.
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Visions of Justice
A Racial Justice Institute Podcast that envisions a more just future