In their book Tacit Racism, Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck give many illustrations of how systemic racism is coded into the everyday social expectations of Americans, in what they call Interaction Orders of Race. They argue that the popular definition of racism as conscious prejudice – or racialized hate – deflects attention from the bigger problem of systemic racism. They also argue that the popular idea that systemic racism involves only formal institutions is wrong. After four centuries of segregation and legalized inequality racial differences have become institutionalized in the expectations of everyday social interaction. As a consequence, interactions can produce racial inequality, whether the people involved are aware of it or not. Thus, by overlooking tacit racism in favor of the fiction of a “color-blind” nation, we are harming not only the most disadvantaged in our society—but endangering the survival of the society itself. <br><br>Facilitator: The Black Male Initiative (BMI)<br><a class='link' href='https://my.esc.edu/ESCConnect/Lists/ESCConnect%20Calendar/DispForm.aspx…; target='_blank'>Session Link</a>