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Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books,
Inc.
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Working
Title: Struggling for Direction:
White Anti-Racism and Accountability
Foreword by: Ron
Chisom,
Co-Founder
and Executive Director
The
People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
Edited by: Bonnie
Cushing, LCSW
SUBMIT PROPOSALS TO: bonniecushing@aol.com BY
Introduction
This book will sample a
range of opinion, rooted in practice and informed by theory, on the meaning of
“accountability” as it applies to white anti-racists and the work they do. In
particular, the book will look at how white-led, white populated and
white-identified activist groups have responded to calls that they be
accountable to people of color in the struggle for racial justice and healing.
It is intended to be a resource in regard to models, best practices, and
historical and contemporary perspectives on accountability and white
anti-racist practice.
Overall Objectives
Our goal is to provide (1) a
multi-perspective discussion about the nature of accountability as it applies
to white anti-racism and (2) compile models for accountability from white
anti-racist activists and the allies of color who support their efforts. This book is intended first and foremost to inform,
inspire and assist these activists in their pursuit of racial justice.
It is our hope that the book
will also find an audience in the multiracial community, this being the broader
community of people who live and work among people of different races, and who are
working towards undoing racism. The topic of accountability and white
anti-racist practice should prove informative and useful to them as well.
This book is also intended
for activists who work in mono-racial settings.
We hope that it will convey insight into some of the working concerns of
white anti-racism and foster collaboration in racial justice work.
Approach
In pursuit of these goals and
on behalf of these constituencies, we are seeking voices spanning generations,
socioeconomic class, and other categories of social difference. We will consider a variety of written styles
including poetry and simple line art.
Examples of topics and themes
Why is accountability
necessary in anti-racist work?
Living case studies:
Describe the manner in which your group has applied the concept of
accountability to your organizing / activism.
Living case studies: What
can happen when groups do not make accountability part of their activism?
Accountability: Who does the work? When building accountable relationships, how
much of the effort to develop the relationship bears upon the white activist(s)
and how much on the people of color to whom the white activists are
accountable? Is accountability a “one
way” or a “two way” street, or some combination of the two? Can there be accountability when no
relationship is present?
What would a power analysis
of white anti-racism show? What does it suggest for accountability?
Accountability between whites
in the anti-racist movement.
Euro-American definitions of
accountability (and how they can impact on white anti-racist organizing efforts).
Accountability to
anti-racist principles in racial justice organizing.
Historical:
Who
called for white organizing to be accountable to people of color?
Who
answered the call for white organizing to be accountable to people of color?
How do white anti-racists
feel about being accountable to people of color?
How to submit a
chapter proposal
Please send a description of
the intended chapter, along with a writing sample and an estimate of the final
length of the work to: Bonnie Cushing, editor, at:
Project plan
Crandall, Dostie &
Douglass, Inc. (CDDbooks) is the book publishing arm of the Center for the
Study of White American Culture, Inc. CDDbooks will assign the royalties from
this work to the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, an international,
multi-racial group of social justice educators and organizers, in recognition
of their support and advancement of accountable white anti-racist practice.
Contributing authors to the
book will be paid a modest fee (from $50 to $150, depending on the length of
the work) for their articles, which will be done as works for hire on behalf of
CDDbooks.
Timeline
Chapter
proposal submitted:
Notification
of acceptance/non-acceptance:
Chapter
work agreements complete:
Chapter
manuscript submitted:
Editorial
work complete:
Book
available from printer: