EQUITABLE DESIGN THROUGH THE URBAN MUSEUM

PRESERVING BLACK CULTURE

1. The only minority culture in the United States that was founded and created in slavery, derived from American sub-cultures which shaped the social, psychological, economic, educational, and political development of black people. Culture is the medium for cognition for all human beings, not just ethnic minorities. The dismantling of legally sanctioned segregation.

A thriving vehicle driven by todays black youth. The advances of a race of people who've overcome their first 400 years spent in bondage in the Western World, freed from slavery 140 years ago, and had no civil rights 50 years ago, presents the possibility of a seamlessly integrated society in the near future. The progression of Blacks from shackles to politicians, educators, police, social activists, and overall business people and their contributions to America represents Black Excellence, and serves as a right to black pride. As a result of centuries of segregation, Black-Americans have formed their own distinct culture, foods, dialects, music, and fashions which has influenced American mainstream culture but also the world.

ENDING STRUCTURAL RACISM

Structural Racism /'struk(t)SH(e)rel/ /'rā,sizem/ Structural Racism in the U.S. is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics – historical, cultural, institutional and interpersonal – that routinely advantage whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color. It is a system of hierarchy and inequity, primarily characterized by white supremacy – the preferential treatment, privilege and power for white people at the expense of Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Arab and other racially oppressed people. Scope Structural Racism encompasses the entire system of white supremacy, diffused and infused in all aspects of society, including our history, culture, politics, economics and our entire social fabric. Structural Racism is the most profound and pervasive form of racism – all other forms of racism (e.g. institutional, interpersonal, internalized, etc.) emerge from structural racism. Indicators/Manifestations

/(h)wīt/ priv-lij noun A privilege is a right, favor, advantage, immunity, specially granted to one individual or group, and withheld from another. (Websters. Italics mine.) White privilege is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of: (1)Preferential prejudice for and treatment of white people based solely on their skin color and/or ancestral origin from Europe; and (2) Exemption from racial and/ or national oppression based on skin color and/or ancestral origin from Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Arab world. [However, races of lighter skin complexions such as Asians, or light-skinned Hispanics, or Mulattos (a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent) can possess white privileged.] U.S. institutions and culture (economic, legal, military, political, educational, entertainment, familial and religious) privilege peoples from Europe over peoples from the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Arab world. In a white supremacy system, white privilege and racial oppression are two sides of the same coin. “White peoples were exempt from slavery, land grab and genocide, the first forms of white privilege (in the future US).” (Virginia Harris and Trinity Ordoña, “Developing Unity among Women of Color: Crossing the Barriers of Internalized Racism and Cross Racial Hostility,” in Making Face, Making Soul: Hacienda Caras. Edited by Gloria

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URBAN MUSEUM

The purpose of the Urban Museum as an extension of both the National Civil Rights Museum and the APEX Museum is to educate the public on the historic and current intentionality of environmental injustice, its role in racism, it's long term effects on mental health, degradation of communities and urbanization; provide safe spaces with a programmatic range of cultural, educational, and human service activities beyond the arts to increase communal wealth and wellbeing; ultimately reestablish the cultural corridor by celebrating black culture & history to inspire cultural pride.