What is Percepticide

Historically marginalized populations in the US, although culturally different, have come under similarly intensified macrosocial pressures that have increasingly challenged their resilience and well-being. These populations have been both geographically set apart through discriminatory practices and educationally disadvantaged through exclusionary institutional practice and the imbalanced allocation of public resources. They have inevitably developed as displaced communities – whose access to resources and participation in local decision-making have been systematically limited or blocked. Many of the communities with which UC Links works have found themselves facing this pervasive displacement in ways that bring their university partners into action with them. In this context, the difficulties of coordinating program activity at times challenge their capacity to sustain their work, and at other times have the effect of deepening their collaborations as they co-construct a zone for listening to each other's voices and expanding understandings of each other's perspectives.