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Visual Arts Department Statement Affirming Black Lives

我们，视觉艺术系的教职员工，肯定黑人的生命. The long history of state-sanctioned murder, violence, discrimination, 以及在美国和其他地方对黑人的压迫被忽视太久了. We are appalled by, and condemn the recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and too many other Black people by police and vigilantes. We mourn for them and for our broken society. 

我们承认在联邦和州机构中存在结构性种族主义, including, but not limited to establishments dedicated to education, such as our own. 作为艺术史学家和艺术家，我们理解图像的力量和重要性. 因此，我们认识到，迫切需要采取更多行动，消除充斥我们社会和课堂的反黑人形象和黑人声音代表性不足的现象. Furthermore, 我们知道艺术史是沉浸在以欧洲为中心的视角中, and we vehemently reject the notion of European, or Western superiority over other cultures. Likewise, 我们拒绝殖民意识形态和暴力，正是这些导致了博物馆机构的建立, whose galleries are filled with plunder from colonized peoples.

Now is the time for change. As a community of artists and scholars, 这是一个将反种族主义纳入我们的工作和教学的好时机.

The Visual Arts Department is committed to:

• 照亮我们的教室，照亮我们在种族不平等问题上的工作, injustice, and violence.
• Assessing our curriculum to address disciplinary silences, erasures, and institutional racism, and to foreground inclusion equity, and social justice
• 使教员多样化，从种族代表性不足的群体中招聘同事.
• Collaborating with, 并支持黑人学生和教职员工同事在校园内进行系统性改变，以建立和维持科罗拉多州立大学富勒顿分校的亲黑人空间.
• 继续支持黑人智力创新研究所的反种族主义活动和倡议, African American Studies, and other departments who specialize in African American, and cross-coalitional knowledge production.
• Collaborating with, and supporting the Institute of Black Intellectual Innovation, whose mission is to “...建立和制度化对黑人的支持和包容, culture, creative arts, and intellectual history at California State University, Fullerton and throughout Orange County.” 
• 支持我们的教师为学生创造治愈的空间, 正在经历种族创伤和痛苦的教职员工.
• 鼓励艺术专业学生加入非裔美国人研究的选修课.
• 支持我校和科罗拉多州立大学的民族研究学位毕业要求.
• 在我们的校园里大声疾呼白人至上主义和种族主义, at all levels of the university.
• 鼓励致力于社会正义和反种族主义教育, praxis, and politics as a department.
• 让那些宣扬“多样性和包容性”，但往往不能以具体方式支持有色人种学生或教师的大学教师和领导人承担责任. 

视觉艺术系不会允许白人至上的文化. Black lives matter. 

*行动项目项目列表中的部分项目从CSUF的墨西哥裔美国人和墨西哥裔美国人研究部门发布的声明中借来.