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Fundamentals of Antiracism

Online Course & White Racial Caucus

Facilitated by: ELEANOR HANCOCK

with guest appearances by: CHRIS CRASS & DAVID DEAN

practices for a world without genocide or state repression or climate catastrophe …

"The fight against racism is our issue. It’s not something that we’re called on to help People of Color with. We need to become involved with it as if our lives depended on it because really, in truth, they do.” — Anne Braden

“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society.”

— James Baldwin

Our world is ravaged by genocide, in the United States masked men roam the streets abducting people, and the environmental devastation of a profit-driven global economy threatens to unravel the foundations of life itself. Essential to the political economy that drives all of this destruction is the conception of “European” or “white” supremacy, an ideology used to justify untold horrors while it socializes people of European descent to uphold a ruling class agenda that isn’t good for anyone.

Fundamentals of Antiracism online course and white racial caucus is designed to help participants understand, analyze and break down the ideology of racism - in ourselves, our families, our communities and our world. Antiracism is not about guilt or shame or calling people out. It’s about shedding a toxic ideology that's been imposed upon us by the ruling class - an ideology that not only enables impunity & destruction, but also separates us from our own heritage, traditions and ancestors.

Appropriate for people with a wide variety of experience levels, participants engage with the work of this course through dialogue, storytelling, reflective practices and study. Under the leadership of Eleanor Hancock (director of Comrades Education, formerly White Awake), with contributions from antiracist white educators Chris Crass and David Dean, this course is designed to help you:

  • evaluate the role of white supremacy as a divide-and-conquer tool that upholds capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, fascism and the destruction of our world

  • explore family history and assimilation into “whiteness” with an eye for what was lost along the way

  • engage in storytelling and processing difficult emotions in order to bring integrity, clarity and longevity to one’s personal antiracist practice

  • identify the ways that white supremacy harms white people and develop antiracist practices that strengthen our capacity for multiracial solidarity 

  •  develop our capacity to bring other white people into multiracial struggle for the common good

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Fundamentals of Antiracism 2025 is a white racial caucus within which participants will spend significant time focusing on their racial socialization as white people. For more on this, please see our Course Structure, Participant Agreements & Ground Rules.

Course Details

Four sessions, held on alternate Sundays & Mondays:

October 5, 13, 19 & 27

Sundays: 4:00-6:30pm eastern time

Mondays: 8:00-9:30pm eastern time

Live attendance is not mandatory.

Sessions will be recorded. 

Suggested registration fee: $75-325

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Comrades Education is a US-based organization. We love having folks join us from outside the US, but you will need to do some translating between the work of this course and its application to your location.

Course facilitator

Eleanor Hancock

Director of Comrades Education

Over the last twelve years, Eleanor has built Comrades Education (formerly White Awake) from a small website to an organization of national significance. As founder and director of the organization, Eleanor holds a strong vision for Comrades Education’s work, and has built a multifaceted community of facilitators and contributors who bring this vision to life. Her leadership grows out of years of experience as an activist, academic, artist, educator, and mother of a multiracial young woman. For more on how Eleanor frames her work, you can listen to this interview on Upstream Podcast and check out her posts on Substack!

Guest contributors

Chris Crass

is one of the leading voices in the U.S. calling for and supporting white people to work for racial justice. He works with community groups, schools and faith communities to develop leadership and momentum for social justice action. He was a founder of the anti-racist movement building center, the Catalyst Project, and helped launch the national white anti-racist network, Showing Up for Racial Justice. He is the author of Towards Collective Liberation and Towards the “Other America”. 

David Dean

is a political educator, writer and speaker seeking to support the growth of powerful coalitions in our social movements. He leads trainings independently and is also a contributor and former Associate Director at Comrades Education. He is currently writing a book titled, Roots Deeper than Whiteness, meant to help white Americans cultivate a rooted, anti-racist identity based on a deeper understanding of their ancestry that can drive their efforts for collective liberation. To receive regular writing from David and learn about other training opportunities with him, subscribe to his Substack, Toward Solidarity.

What participants have said about our courses

  • “I am so grateful for the language, the love, the empowerment, and the honest respect shown by the facilitators for everyone's experience. This is the kind of work I've been looking for. You have helped me feel so much less alone.”

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  • “This course helped me to feel more motivated to work in community and at a community level - that there could actually be meaningful change that comes from that kind of action."

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  • "Many of the activist spaces I have been in used shame tactics to bring people into the movement, and it was really meaningful (and healing!) for me to be in a space that instead focused on what we can do starting now and what our individual and collective capabilities are."

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This course is actively supported by our Advisory Council Members:

Katrina Messenger

Betty Burkes

Bonnie Duran

"Why do you charge for your work?"

We believe the work that we do is significant, and we want to do it well. To this end, we charge a modest fee for our online programs, and solicit donations from participants and supporters, in order to meet our financial needs. This allows Comrades Education staff and instructors to focus their time and energy on the educational work this project promotes, for the benefit of all.

Comrades Education and our instructors support a transition away from capitalism, imperialism and white supremacy; we support reparations to historically targeted groups, communities and Peoples; and we make our work available to all regardless of financial means.

If you have further questions, please contact: info@comrades.education