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视觉艺术系申明黑人生命的声明

We, the faculty and staff of the Visual Arts Department, affirm Black lives. 国家批准的谋杀的悠久历史, 暴力, 歧视, and oppression of Black people in the United States – and elsewhere – has been ignored for too long. 我们对, 谴责最近对乔治·弗洛伊德的谋杀, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna泰勒, 还有很多黑人被警察和义务警员杀害. 我们为他们和我们破碎的社会哀悼. 

We acknowledge that structural racism exists in federal and state institutions, 包括, 但不局限于教育机构, 比如我们自己. As art historians and artists we understand the power and importance of images. We therefore acknowledge the urgency to do more to counter the images of anti-Blackness and the under-representation of Black voices that pervade our society and classrooms. 此外, we understand that the history of art is steeped in a Eurocentric perspective, 我们强烈反对欧洲的概念, 或者西方文化优于其他文化. 同样的, we reject the colonial ideologies 和暴力 that led to the creation of the institution of the museum, 谁的画廊里摆满了从殖民地掠夺来的财物.

现在是改变的时候了. 作为一个艺术家和学者的社区, this is an opportune time to include anti-racism in our work and our pedagogy.

视觉艺术系致力于:

• Shining light in our classrooms and in our work on issues of racial inequality, 不公正, 和暴力.
• 评估我们的课程以解决纪律沉默问题, “抹除”, 制度性种族主义, 并强调包容性公平, 以及社会公正
• Diversifying the faculty and hiring colleagues from racially underrepresented groups.
• 合作, and supporting Black students and faculty and staff colleagues to make systemic changes on campus that make and sustain CSU Fullerton pro-Black spaces.
• Continuing to support anti-racist events and initiatives from our colleagues in the Institute of Black Intellectual Innovation, 非裔美国人研究, 以及其他专门研究非裔美国人的部门, 以及跨联盟的知识生产.
• 合作, 并支持黑人智力创新研究所, 他的使命是"...establish and institutionalize the support and inclusion of Black people, 文化, 创造性的艺术, 以及加州州立大学的思想史教授, 富勒顿和整个奥兰治县.” 
• Supporting our faculty to create spaces of healing for our students, faculty and staff who are experiencing racialized trauma and pain.
• Encouraging Art majors to incorporate electives from 非裔美国人研究.
• Supporting the Ethnic Studies degree graduation requirement on our campus and the CSU system.
• Calling out both subtle and explicit White supremacy and racism on our campus, 在大学的各个层次.
• Encouraging commitment to social justice and anti-racist pedagogy, 实践, 政治作为一个部门.
• Holding university faculty and leaders accountable who speak “diversity and inclusion” but who often fail to support students or faculty of color in concrete ways. 

The Visual Arts Department will not enable a 文化 of white supremacy. 黑人的生命很重要. 

*Select items in the bulleted list of action items are borrowed with permission from the statement published by the CSUF’s Chicana and Chicano Studies Department.