Racial Equity Quilombo

Connected by a Shared History

Though DGEP is based in America, it is a global initiative to attempt to positively impact the African diaspora – which has a common history.  Hayti was not the only community founded by former African slaves with the goal of finding freedom and happiness for their children and families.  Durham’s Hayti was named for the island of Haiti, the only nation-state ever formed as a result of an African slave revolt.  However, DGEP recognizes the power of the diaspora.  Quilombos will represent DGEP’s intersectionality of thought and approach to racial equity

DGEP QUILOMBOS OF RACIAL EQUITY THOUGHT AND APPROACH

True emergence and innovation comes from the intersection of diverse thoughts and approaches.  This same model will be used to drive Racial Equity by Design Thinking.

Quilombo comes from the Kimbundu word kilombo which means “war camp.”  If those fighting for Racial Equity do not realize we are in a war against those fighting to maintain historically oppressive structures, systems, and frameworks, then they have not been paying attention.  It is not a race war – but an ideological war.  Full racial equity versus White Supremacy.

A quilombo is a Brazillian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others.  Most of the inhabitants of quilombos, called quilombolas, were maroons, a term for escaped slaves.  Quilombos are classified as one of the basic forms of active resistance by enslave Africans.  In this vein, Durham’s Historic Black Hayti used four forms of active resistance to racial inequity: Intellect, Entrepreneurship, Education, and Research.  DGEP Thought Quilombos will use a diverse set of thinking and action as our community’s active resistance to racial inequity.

 

THREE TYPES OF DISCOVERY OF OUR DGEP THOUGHT QUILOMBOS

The vision of the DGEP Equity Education Research and Development Park is to bring all of these communities of thought, practice, and teaching together into one interdisciplinary community that can eradicate systematic racism at its root versus simply addressing its symptoms.  Using basic research to discover new insights, applicational strategies to disseminate the insights into practice, and teaching methods to transform how this knowledge is shared and applied, is how we will continually innovate in the design and implementation of racial equity strategies.

  • Basic or Discovery Scholarship is directed toward increasing the knowledge base and the development of theory.
  • Applied or Integrative/Application Scholarship draws from basic research and uses accumulated theories, knowledge, methods, and techniques to solve real-world problems and/or issues associated with practice.
  • Teaching and Learning Scholarship explores the theory and methods of teaching and advances new understandings, insights, content, and methods that impact learning behavior.

True emergence and innovation comes from the intersection of diverse thoughts and approaches.  This same model will be used to drive Racial Equity by Design Thinking.

Quilombo comes from the Kimbundu word kilombo which means “war camp.”  If those fighting for Racial Equity do not realize we are in a war against those fighting to maintain historically oppressive structures, systems, and frameworks, then they have not been paying attention.  It is not a race war – but an ideological war.  Full racial equity versus White Supremacy.

A quilombo is a Brazillian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others.  Most of the inhabitants of quilombos, called quilombolas, were maroons, a term for escaped slaves.  Quilombos are classified as one of the basic forms of active resistance by enslave Africans.  In this vein, Durham’s Historic Black Hayti used four forms of active resistance to racial inequity: Intellect, Entrepreneurship, Education, and Research.  DGEP Thought Quilombos will use a diverse set of thinking and action as our community’s active resistance to racial inequity.   These communities of thought and approach will proliferate throughout DGEP.

45 such communities of thought and approach are as follows:

  1. Public
  2. Private
  3. Philanthropic
  4. Academic
  5. Community
  6. Science
  7. Technology
  8. Arts & Humanities
  9. Market
  10. Policy
  11. Supports
  12. Pipeline
  13. Place & Space
  14. Access to Capital
  15. Removing Barriers
  16. Race
  17. Gender
  18. Geography
  19. Ability
  20. Age
  21. Health
  22. Education
  23. Economic Development
  24. Concept
  25. Context
  26. Core
  27. Capital
  28. Confidence
  29. Children
  30. Familes
  31. Neighborhoods
  32. Local
  33. Regional
  34. State
  35. Nation
  36. World
  37. Pre-School
  38. K-3 grades
  39. 4-5 grades
  40. 6-8 grades
  41. 9-12 grades
  42. College
  43. Trade
  44. Career
  45. Life