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# Race Critical Theories
is a collaborative network supporting open access research, writing, organizing, and pedagogy initiatives centered on race, ethnicity, and media – broadly conceived. The project builds on the GEM Lab’s 2020-21 *race critical theories* lecture and workshop [series] and aims to establish and support a decentralized open syllabus platform involving scholars, educators, artists, activists, and other community partners.[^1]
is a collaborative network supporting open access research, writing, organizing, and pedagogy initiatives centered on race, ethnicity, and media – broadly conceived. The project builds on the GEM Lab’s 2020-21 *race critical theories* lecture and workshop [series] and aims to establish and support a decentralized open syllabus platform involving scholars, educators, artists, activists, and other community partners. [^1]
It borrows its conceptual orientation from Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg’s 2001 eponymous [collection]. The volume, which both gathered seminal scholarship on race and racism from the 1980s and 1990s, alongside newly commissioned responses to that work, sought to “look back reflectively as a way forward.” Taking up this critical call at the present conjuncture, RCT aims both to examine the specificities of race and racism in Canada, North America, and globally – settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, racial capitalism, white supremacy, ethno-nationalism, among other critical and intersecting issues – but also to locate these problems within subnational and transnational structures and structures of feeling. This is both to take up Essed and Goldberg’s claim that race and racism have no singular national identity – “the particularities of racial configurations and racist manifestations anywhere are linked to their expression in some more or less direct and complex way everywhere” – and to assemble syllabus provocations and resources that speak to what Denise Ferreira da Silva calls *the global idea of race*. After da Silva, this “global idea” helps us to frame our commitment to examining not just the implications race and racialization have on social arrangements, both locally and across geopolitical contexts, but also the manner in which the concept of race shapes our capacity to conceive possibilities beyond our given world.