Welcome to the Center for Racial Justice

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ABOUT
Located in the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine, land of the Acjachemen and Tongva nations, the Center for Racial Justice at UC Irvine (CRJ) is committed to eradicating racism and all forms of oppression, and reducing intolerance, hate, and extremism. We are committed to driving well being for all by modeling creative programming and sustaining trusting community partnerships at UCI and in the surrounding community. The center facilitates campus and community workshops and trainings to promote racial and social justice, cultural humility, advocacy, and community healing.

MISSION
The CRJ brings together community members, researchers, organizers, and stakeholders to support and promote innovative programming, research, and ideas aimed at examining social inequality, jettisoning false beliefs in a hierarchy of human value, and addressing structural barriers to belonging and thriving.

VISION
The Center advances a just and inclusive society through community-centered collaborations to stimulate transformative change.

OUR STATEMENT ON ANTI-RACISM WORK
We recognize it is not the responsibility of BIPOC people to do this work and we will not impose that burden on BIPOC people. Rather, we listen to BIPOC communities to understand how to best act as antiracists and as allies, while building trust across communities and organizations and supporting their efforts within their communities. We acknowledge that some of us have historically been racially privileged, and we take on the work to educate ourselves. We will take bold steps to work internally and externally for social justice and the decolonization of systems through intersectional frameworks as we work on dismantling racism.

Community-centered collaborations inform our work as a center. We maintain integrity in our community work by centering the voices and valuing people as the experts of their own lived experiences. We seek to partner with and invest in the grassroots efforts of our Orange County community, rather than treating the community as our subjects for our research benefit. Through trusting partnerships, strengthened by time and interaction, ultimately yield a greater capacity to effect change.

 

Associated Programs

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Shared Table Perspective

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Center for Truth and Racial Healing

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Empathy, Connection & Human Outreach

 

 

Directors

 

Teresa Neighbors
  • Lecturer, Social Science; Director, Deconstructing Diversity Initiative; Co-Director, Center for Racial Justice

  •  SBSG 1507 | 949-824-9229

  • tneighbo@uci.edu
Mamyrah Prosper
  • Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Racial Justice
    Ph.D., Florida International University 

  • social movements, caribbean and latin america

  •  557 Social Science Tower

  • mprosper@uci.edu

 

Administrative Staff


 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Mailing Address
Center for Racial Justice
5139 Social Science Plaza A
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100

Telephone: (949) 824-9229

Email: crj@uciedu

Direction (UCI Campus)
The Center's Administrative Suite is located on the 5th floor of the Social Science Plaza Building A.
See: SSPA Building (211)

Directions to the campus can be found here.