Are Classrooms Racist?

From left to right: Jorge Quinones, Erika Andrade, Carlos Carbajal, Shawhin Roudbari, Beth Osnes, Helanius Wilkins

A CU Boulder Environmental Design Gallery exhibit, Race Conditions: An Exploration of Spatial Operations of Whiteness, explores how classroom design can perpetuate racism.

KGNU’s Rossana Longo Better spoke with Carlos Carbajal, CU student  and one of the exhibit’s creators. Carbajal says the exhibit is an exploration of how the architecture of the campus classroom can perpetuate racialized experiences.

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