Dismantling White Supremacy in Design Classrooms: My Conversation With Design Guru Cheryl D. Miller

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways in which my teaching practices might be reinforcing White supremacy. In particular, I’ve been thinking about how graphic design advice that I share in my classes — advice that I thought to be “neutral” and “benign” — may serve to exclude and oppress BIPOC students. These thoughts came to the foreground a few weeks ago. At a webinar organized by  <a href="https://medium.com/u/dbcae4142c94?source=post_page-----5dc9c48b15e4--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Chris Rudd</a>  at the IIT Institute of Design (“<a href="https://id.iit.edu/news/id-launches-the-future-must-be-different-series/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Future Must be Different from the Past: Embracing an Anti-Racist Agenda</a>”), graphic designer <a href="https://www.aiga.org/diversity-inclusion-design-journeys-essay-cheryl-d-miller" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Cheryl D. Miller</a> was asked to reflect about the elements of contemporary graphic design that she believes symbolize racism and oppression. <a href="https://medium.com/future-of-design-in-higher-education/dismantling-white-supremacy-in-design-classrooms-my-conversation-with-design-guru-cheryl-d-miller-5dc9c48b15e4">Read More</a>