Putting Racism on the Table

The fifth session of Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity features Julie Nelson (Race Forward and the Government Alliance on Race and Equity) and Karla Bruce (Fairfax County Government). Across the country, state and local governments are beginning to take the lead on addressing racial inequity. What are examples of how this has happened? What is the role of community leaders in shaping these conversations? Where are we seeing success?

The fifth session of Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity features Julie Nelson (Race Forward and the Government Alliance on Race and Equity) and Karla Bruce (Fairfax County Government). Across the country, state and local governments are beginning to take the lead on addressing racial inequity. What are examples of how this has happened? What is the role of community leaders in shaping these conversations? Where are we seeing success?

In the fourth session of Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity (2018) Dr. Patricia Devine and Dr. Will Cox, two scientific leaders in the study of stereotyping and implicit biases from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, share the strategies they have developed and empirically tested to break the “prejudice habit.” These strategies are the first and remain the only interventions that have been shown to produce long-term changes in implicit bias.

In the second session of the 2018 Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity series, Dr. Ibram Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, discussed how structural racism is constructed by the interplay of racist ideas and racist policies.