ROUNDTABLE: Strategies for Dismantling Remnants of the Racial Worldview.

Wednesday, 9-10:45 AM.  W-13. Potters,  CONFERENCE HOTEL

Co-Organizers/Chairs:  Rosemary Henze, Yolanda Moses, Carol Mukhopadhyay

Other Panelists: Holly Okonkwo, Margaret Le Compte, Jean Schensul.

EXPANDED ABSTRACT.

This Roundtable addresses the Racial Worldview (RWV), a long-standing ideology of race-based human difference used to justify race-based stratification, restrict social and sexual relationships, and mask other forms of inequality. (Mukhopadhyay, Henze, Moses, 2025).  The racial worldview has been, and remains, deeply in all major US institutions, social, economic, political, legal, educational, health and medicine; in popular culture and mass media; in demographic data collection and analysis; in our social relationships and identities; and in language and everyday talk.

Despite successful attempts to dismantle the most blatant ideological and institutional manifestations of the RWV, remnants of the RWV persist, often manifested and reinforced through more subtle mechanisms, in the language we employ, videos we watch, attributes we notice in social interactions, the social categories we are asked to select from on questionnaires. 

Panelists will describe practical strategies, measures, policies, and approaches they have employed to dismantle contemporary manifestations of the racial worldview.  Significant audience response and input will be encouraged.

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