Facing Race: A National Conference in St. Louis, MO — November 20-22, 2024

Dante King

Blackademics: Addressing Anti-Blackness Around the World Inc
Pronouns: He/him/his/They/them/theirs
Dante King is a native of San Francisco, California. He is the author of The 400-Year Holocaust: White America's Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory. Dante’s academic disciplines include Afro-Realism, Critical Race Studies, including Anti-Blackness and Whiteness Studies; American History; African American Studies and History; and the ways that they have shaped American culture and institutions. Dante is a historian, scholar, thoughtleader, facilitator, and coach. He has worked and consulted for more than 15-years as a human resource management professional specializing in the implementation of anti-racist practice, and organizational development and change.

Presentations from Facing Race 2022

Exploring and Understanding Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy As Illnesses: Finding A Cure for the Future

This session will revolve around much of the contents within my book, The 400-Year Holocaust: White America's Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory. The book examines and discusses factions of the legal history of anti-Blackness and whiteness through colonialism and the United States, and its impacts on present-day America. It centers anti-Blackness as the core tenet of "racism" in White America and amplifies its relationship to the inherent "value" of whiteness (i.e., white identity, white culture, white institutions, etc.). Participants will be led through several interactive exercises where they will look at the roots of anti-Blackness and white supremacy, and make linkages to the ways in which the tenets manifest daily behavioral patterns, decisioning, framing, conceptualizing, etc. Participants will then work together to develop strategies that will enable and empower them to consider anti-Blackness and whiteness as the root cause of injustice within and throughout American institutions.

Speakers: Dante King