{{Short description|American nonprofit racial justice organization}} {{Infobox organization | image = File:RaceForwardLogo.jpg | formation = 1981 | type = 501(c)(3) | purpose = Racial justice, civil rights | leader_title = Director | leader_name = Glenn Harris (2017 - present) Rinku Sen (2006-2017) Gary Delgado (1981-2006) | leader_name2 = Gary Delgado (1981-2006) | former_name = The Applied Research Center | name = Race Forward | website = [http://www.raceforward.org www.raceforward.org] }}
'''Race Forward''' is a nonprofit racial justice organization with offices in Oakland, California, and New York City.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/news/news-news/activists-stop-trumps-racist-agenda/|title=What Are Activists Doing to Stop Trump's Racist Agenda? - November 16, 2016|date=2016-11-16|website=SF Weekly|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> It defines its mission as "[helping] people take effective action toward racial equity."<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2024 |title=WE CATALYZE MOVEMENTS TO ADVANCE THE VISION OF A MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY |url=https://www.raceforward.org/about/mission-vision-values |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=Race Forward}}</ref>
== History == Race Forward was founded by Gary Delgado in 1981, and was known as the Applied Research Center until 2013.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://www.autostraddle.com/colorlines-applied-research-center-races-forward-by-becoming-race-forward-203926/|title=Colorlines' Applied Research Center Races Forward By Becoming 'Race Forward'|last1=Bernard|first1=Riese|date=10 November 2013 |publisher=Autostraddle|accessdate=6 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/01/celebrating-hellraisers-gary-delgado/|title=Celebrating Hellraisers: Gary Delgado|last=Walljasper|first=Jay|date=January 1996|website=Mother Jones|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> Delgado remained in leadership until 2006, after which point Rinku Sen became executive director.<ref name="Rinku Sen">{{Cite web|url=https://facingrace.raceforward.org/speaker/rinku-sen|title=Rinku Sen|website=Facing Race: A National Conference|language=en|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion and is now under the leadership of Glenn Harris, former President of the Center for Social Inclusion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/06/28/possibility-scale-merger-race-forward-csi/|title=Possibility and Scale: The Merger of Race Forward and CSI|date=2017-06-28|website=Non Profit News {{!}} Nonprofit Quarterly|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> Rinku Sen remained with the organization as a Senior Strategist.<ref name="Rinku Sen"/>
== Activities == Race Forward describes itself as advancing the advance of racial justice through research, media, and leadership development.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2015/rinku-sen-talk-black-lives-matter-1020|title=Talking about race|website=MIT News|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> Speaking to NBC in 2015, Executive Director Rinku Sen further characterized Race Forward as focusing on finding ways to re-articulate racism to draw attention to systemic racism.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/envisioning-enacting-racial-justice-rinku-sen-force-behind-race-forward-n459996|title=Envisioning and Enacting Racial Justice: Rinku Sen the Force Behind Race Forward|website=NBC News|language=en|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> According to Gary Deglado, its work is based on an intersectional understanding of race and the impact of racism alongside other social issues.<ref name=":1" />
In 2015, Race Forward explained its three principles as the use of specific and plain talk to say what you mean about race issues; the focus on impact rather than intention; and the use of strategic terms as well as moral arguments.<ref name=":2" /> The organization has published research reports and editorials on issues such as millennials and their attitudes towards race, environmental issues and grassroots organizing, race and religion, and police accountability.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/redefining-racism-systemic-unconscious-hidden|title=Millennials don't know how to talk about race, and that's a problem|date=2015-03-25|website=PBS NewsHour|language=en-us|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=SEN|first=RINKU|date=2003|title=Who's Got the Power? Resolving the grassroots-intermediary rift|journal=Race, Poverty & the Environment|volume=10|issue=1|pages=26–56|issn=1532-2874|jstor=41554366}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/ferguson-police-accountabilityracelaborgender.html|title=OPINION: For police accountability, look beyond individual racial bias|website=america.aljazeera.com|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> John Sullivan, a research associate with Race Forward, has described the organization's research on community demographics and shifting populations of Black communities as a tool to understand and support community organizing efforts.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sullivan|first=John|date=2011|title=African Americans Moving South — and to the Suburbs|journal=Race, Poverty & the Environment|volume=18|issue=2|page=19|issn=1532-2874|jstor=41554768}}</ref>
Race Forward has endorsed the Movement for Black Lives.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Arnold|first=Eric K.|date=2017|title=The BLM Effect: Hashtags, History and Race|journal=Race, Poverty & the Environment|volume=21|issue=2|page=10|issn=1532-2874|jstor=44687751}}</ref>
== Publications == '''Publications from Race Forward include:'''
* Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990s (1994)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stoecker|first=Randy|date=1995|title=Community, Movement, Organization: The Problem of Identity Convergence in Collective Action|journal=The Sociological Quarterly|volume=36|issue=1|page=127|doi=10.1111/j.1533-8525.1995.tb02323.x |issn=0038-0253|jstor=4121280}}</ref> * Deliberate Disadvantage: A Case Study of Race Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Younis|first=Mona|date=1998|title=Chapter 11: San Antonio and Fruitvale|journal=Cityscape|volume=4|issue=2|page=240|issn=1936-007X|jstor=41486484}}</ref> * Education and Race (1998)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Duncan|first=Garrett Albert|date=2000|title=Urban Pedagogies and the Celling of Adolescents of Color|journal=Social Justice|volume=27|issue=3 (81)|page=41|issn=1043-1578|jstor=29767228}}</ref> * Crisis: How California Teaching Policies Aggravate Racial Inequality in Public Schools (1999)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Epstein|first=Kitty Kelly|date=2005|title=The Whitening of the American Teaching Force: A Problem of Recruitment or a Problem of Racism?|journal=Social Justice|volume=32|issue=3 (101)|page=100|issn=1043-1578|jstor=29768323}}</ref> * [https://www.raceforward.org/sites/default/files/pdf/196apdf.pdf Facing the consequences: An examination of racial discrimination in U.S. public schools] (2000)<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Thompson|first1=Gail L.|last2=Allen|first2=Tawannah G.|date=2012|title=Four Effects of the High-Stakes Testing Movement on African American K-12 Students|journal=The Journal of Negro Education|volume=81|issue=3|page=226|doi=10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218|issn=0022-2984|jstor=10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218|s2cid=140809345 }}</ref> * [http://www.geocities.ws/desocamasters/profiling.pdf Racial profiling and punishment in U.S. public schools: How zero tolerance policies and high stakes testing subvert academic excellence and racial equity] (2001)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=VOLANTE|first=LOUIS|date=2008|title=Equity in Multicultural Student Assessment|journal=The Journal of Educational Thought|volume=42|issue=1|page=23|issn=0022-0701|jstor=23765469}}</ref> * "Cruel and Usual: How Welfare 'Reform' Punishes Poor People (2001)<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Delgado|first=Gary|date=2004|title=Recruitment of Advocacy Researchers|journal=Journal of Public Affairs Education|volume=10|issue=2|page=170|issn=1523-6803|jstor=40215653}}</ref> * Welfare Reality (2001)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shaw|first=Kathleen M.|date=2003-12-19|title=Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy|journal=The Journal of Higher Education|language=en|volume=75|issue=1|page=76|doi=10.1353/jhe.2003.0053|s2cid=142848215 |issn=1538-4640}}</ref> * Mapping the Immigrant Infrastructure (2002)<ref name=":4" /> * [https://www.raceforward.org/sites/default/files/pdf/206bpdf.pdf Profiled and punished: How San Diego schools undermine Latino and African American student achievement] (2002)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Monroe|first=Carla R.|date=2005|title=Why Are "Bad Boys" Always Black? Causes of Disproportionality in School Discipline and Recommendations for Change|journal=The Clearing House|volume=79|issue=1|pages=49|doi=10.3200/TCHS.79.1.45-50 |issn=0009-8655|jstor=30182106|s2cid=144663143 }}</ref> * Multiracial Formations (2003)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org/multiracial-formations|title=Multiracial Formations {{!}} The Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project|website=www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> * Race and Recession (May 2009)<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bond-Graham|first1=Darwin|last2=Liu|first2=Yvonne Yen|date=2012|title=Communities of Color Organize against Urban Land Grabs|journal=Race, Poverty & the Environment|volume=19|issue=1|page=66|issn=1532-2874|jstor=41762547}}</ref> * [http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/ARC_Millennials_Report_June_2011.pdf Don’t call them “Post-Racial”: Millennials’’ attitudes on race, racism, and key systems in our society.] (2011)<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kanny|first1=M. Allison|last2=Pizzolato|first2=Jane Elizabeth|last3=Johnston|first3=Marc P.|date=2015-05-18|title=Examining the Significance of "Race" in College Students' Identity Within a "Postracial" Era|journal=Journal of College Student Development|language=en|volume=56|issue=3|page=241|doi=10.1353/csd.2015.0023|s2cid=145801711 |issn=1543-3382}}</ref> * [http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ARC_Report_Shattered_Families_FULL_REPORT_Nov2011Release.pdf Shattered families: The perilous intersection of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system] (2011)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sánchez|first=Patricia|date=2014|title=Research and Policy: Dignifying Every Day: Policies and Practices That Impact Immigrant Students|journal=Language Arts|volume=91|issue=5|page=371|issn=0360-9170|jstor=24575547}}</ref> * [https://www.raceforward.org/practice/tools/racial-equity-impact-assessment-toolkit Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit]
Race Forward publishes the daily news site ''Colorlines'', published by Executive Director Rinku Sen. ''Colorlines'' was initially a magazine, and it transformed into a website in 2010.<ref name=":3" />
In 2015, Race Forward launched an interactive multimedia tool called "[https://clockingin.raceforward.org/ Clocking-In]," designed to highlight race and gender inequality in service industries.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/race-forward-launches-interactive-tool-on-race-and-gender-employment-inequities-300100134.html|title=Race Forward Launches Interactive Tool on Race and Gender Employment Inequities|last=Innovation|first=Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref>
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