Dismantling White Supremacy in Design Classrooms: My Conversation With Design Guru Cheryl D. Miller
<p>I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways in which my teaching practices might be reinforcing White supremacy.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>These thoughts came to the foreground a few weeks ago. At a webinar organized by </p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/u/dbcae4142c94?source=post_page-----5dc9c48b15e4--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Chris Rudd</a></p>
<p> 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.</p>
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