From the Hill and Beyond #6 by Malik Seneferu

Dialogue: Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness with Dante D. King

Sunday, 2/23/2025
1:00 - 3:00
Koret Auditorium
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

Watch segments of Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness and participate in facilitated discussions with Dante D. King, noted anti-racism advocate and educator.  

Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis, and Trauma in America is a 10-episode docuseries written by King with the goal of creating awareness, fostering dialogue and inspiring action on the deeply rooted issues of race, identity and systemic injustice. The series aims to empower individuals to confront and dismantle the structures that uphold racism and privilege. 

Participants will watch parts of Episode 02: The Politics of Race and Racism in America: White Mediocrity, White Sponsorship, and White Affirmative Action; and Episode 06: Malignant Diabolical Psychopathy: Diagnosing Whiteness and Anti-Blackness for Survival.  

Dante D. King is a native of San Francisco and author of the book The 400-Year Holocaust: White America's Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory. King is also a professor of American History, African American History, and Black Studies. He has worked and consulted for more than 15-years as a human resource management professional specializing in executive leadership development, coaching, and the implementation of anti-racism organizational development frameworks, strategies and practices. He serves as guest faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine (UCSF), where he has lectured for three years, and guest lectured at Clark College (Vancouver, Washington), Bellevue College (Bellevue, Washington), Skyline College (San Bruno, California) and Green River College (Green River, Washington). Dante holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in African American Studies and a master's degree in education, from California State University, East Bay. While working as a senior Human Resources Manager at the City and County of San Francisco (2016-2019), Dante designed and implemented a citywide anti-racism and bias training, Creating and Inclusive Environment: An Introduction to Implicit Bias. 

Connect:

Dante King - Website | Dante King - Instagram  

 

 

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