The Multi-Racial Relationships Initiative

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Our goal in the Multi-Racial Relationship Project is to conduct research and contribute to the growing body of work in dismantling systemic racism and racial inequity by examining the lived experiences of those in multi-racial relationships.

The theory which drives our research is that strong multi-racial relationships are an essential and powerful tool in the long work of dismantling racism. Increasingly, social change agents understand that relationships are as critical to sustained and long-term change as activism, politics, and policy. Writer and activist adrienne maree brown has written that, in the work of social transformation, “relationships are everything.”1

This project assumes that biological race is a myth unsupported by science and social history, and maintained to enforce the subjugation of particular ethnic and cultural groups. Racism, however, is alive and well, costing lives, degrading humanity, and limiting access to economic opportunity and basic human rights. 

Many of us at the ILI are members of multi-racial families, with parents, partners and/or children whose skin color is different from each other’s and who don’t share the same experience of racism. In order to be in loving family with each other, we see each other as fully human, transcending race. At the same time we acknowledge racism, and our differing realities, ancestral histories, and experiences. 

Join us to determine the lessons we can learn in these relationships, uncover the collective wisdom of these experiences, and build practices to generate strong, intentional multi-racial relationships across our society.

If you are able, please consider donating and sharing this opportunity to help us conduct this important research.

If you would like to participate in this research as a member of a multi-racial relationship, consider joining us for a confidential interview. To learn more about this opportunity, visit our website at liberatoryinstitute.org/mrrproject.

For questions regarding our work, contact Lucinda Garthwaite, Director, at lgarthwaite@liberatoryinstitute.org.

1 brown, a.m. (2017) Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change. Changing Worlds. A.K. Press. Page 19