HRD Scholar and Practitioner Anti-racist Identity: Working Through and Beyond Challenges

The chapter offers an invitation for HRD practitioners and scholars to embrace identities as anti-racists. It examines constructs of power, privilege, and self-awareness. It considers some of the factors for why those in majoritarian positions (to be specific, Whites) might demonstrate anxiousness or self-consciousness with respect to addressing issues of racism in scholarship and practice. This chapter provides an invitation for HRD practitioners and scholars to embark on earnest and effective journeys of growth and development in order to deepen and broaden capacities for creating programs that have anti-racist orientations.