Pursuing Antiracist Public Policy Education: An Example Connecting the Racist History of Housing Policy to Contemporary Inequity

We review the antiracism concept and contextualize it in Extension public policy education and the Extension system itself. Despite public policy education having a long history in Extension on a wide variety of issues, missing from this programming is the pursuit of antiracism. As a programmatic ex...

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Published inJournal of extension Vol. 61; no. 1
Main Authors Carpenter, Craig, Augst, Tyler, Fierke-Gmazel, Harmony, Neumann, Bradley, Wooten, Richard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 16.04.2023
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Summary:We review the antiracism concept and contextualize it in Extension public policy education and the Extension system itself. Despite public policy education having a long history in Extension on a wide variety of issues, missing from this programming is the pursuit of antiracism. As a programmatic example, we review some historical causes of present-day housing inequities and an associated example approach for pursuing antiracism in housing policy education. Finally, we conclude by noting additional opportunities to pursue antiracism in Extension public policy education. In doing so, we emphasize that public policy education cannot be “nonracist” if it is not antiracist.
ISSN:0022-0140
1077-5315
DOI:10.34068/joe.61.01.02