Telling the Story of Systemic Racism
Exploring Democracy • Educational, 15-Jul-2020
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, July 15, 2020.
Tricia Rose on structural racism and the gears that spin the current system.
“There’s no easy, single villain.”
Rose is the Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, associate dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Her work deals with social problems such as social inequality, police profiling, implicit bias, ethnic stereotyping and immigration policies through research, scholarship, education, performance and art.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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