Events

Past Event

Anti-Racism Speaker Series: Waverly Duck, PhD

September 16, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
America/New_York
Online

The event will feature Dr. Waverly Duck , an urban sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His lecture titled “A Nation Divided: The High Cost of Tacit Racism in Everyday Life” will be held virtually.

Every time we interact with another human being, we unconsciously draw on a set of expectations to guide us through the encounter. What many of us in the US do not recognize, is that centuries of institutional racism have inescapably molded those expectations. This leads us to act with implicit biases that can shape everything from how we greet our neighbors to whether we take a second look at a résumé. This is tacit racism, and it is one of the most pernicious threats to our nation. This talk is about Race in the US and how it has become embedded in the taken-for-granted structures of day-to-day interaction, to produce unconscious forms of racism that go on every day – yet remain hidden. This presentation is both theoretical and empirical. Using data derive from fieldwork, as well as audio and video recordings of interactions between participants who self-identify as Black and White; these recordings illustrate underlying differences in expectations about racial interactions. I identify a set of interrelated phenomena called “Interaction Orders of Race,” “Race Pollution,” “Fractured Reflections,” and “Submissive Civility,” that provide novel ways of understanding race in everyday interactions.
 

Join Zoom Meeting on 9/16/2021 at 10am: https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/99797342820?pwd=c1pGOFl4UGR1U0FQSGxaZC9ncGkvdz09

Contact Information

Center for Research on People of Color
347-978-2871