Race Forward

Race Forward was founded by Gary Delgado in 1981, and was known as the Applied Research Center until 2013.{{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}}{{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}} Delgado remained in leadership until 2006, after which point Rinku Sen became executive director.{{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}} 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.{{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}} Rinku Sen remained with the organization as a Senior Strategist.

Race Forward describes itself as advancing the advance of racial justice through research, media, and leadership development.{{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}} 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.{{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}} According to Gary Deglado, its work is based on an intersectional understanding of race and the impact of racism alongside other social issues.

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. 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.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}} 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.{{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}}

Race Forward has endorsed the Movement for Black Lives.{{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}}

Publications from Race Forward include:

• Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990s (1994){{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}}
• Deliberate Disadvantage: A Case Study of Race Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996){{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}}
• Education and Race (1998){{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}}
• Crisis: How California Teaching Policies Aggravate Racial Inequality in Public Schools (1999){{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}}
• [https://www.raceforward.org/sites/default/files/pdf/196apdf.pdf Facing the consequences: An examination of racial discrimination in U.S. public schools] (2000){{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 }}
• [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){{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}}
• "Cruel and Usual: How Welfare 'Reform' Punishes Poor People (2001){{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}}
• Welfare Reality (2001){{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}}
• Mapping the Immigrant Infrastructure (2002)
• [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){{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 }}
• Multiracial Formations (2003){{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}}
• Race and Recession (May 2009){{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}}
• [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){{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}}
• [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){{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}}
• [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.

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.{{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}}

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