Rich Benjamin, an African American journalist spent over two years criss-crossing the country to document the latest manifestation of "white flight" -- the migration of white residents from cities to racially homogeneous enclaves that Benjamin calls "Whitopias." Along the way, he bumps into a white separatist group that, by his account, treats him well. What are we to make of his account vis a vis contemporary race relations? |
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Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D., is a teaching associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches Psychology of Race and Ethnicity and courses on restorative justice.
Since 2009, Mikhail has been studying and working with conflict, particularly via Restorative Circles (a restorative practice developed in Brazil by Dominic Barter and associates) and other restorative responses to conflict. Together with Elaine Shpungin, he now supports schools, organizations, and workplaces in developing restorative strategies for engaging conflict, building conflict facilitation skills and evaluating the outcomes associated with restorative responses via Conflict 180.
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