The Fire This Time: Race, Policing, and the Psychology of Justice in Contemporary America

Over the last half century, political and intellectual discourse has made us aware of the complex and multidimensional relationships between social “difference” and “inequality.” In this global age, the intersections of gender, class, race, sexuality, age, ability, and nationality provide rich contexts for exploring the production and management of “difference” in everyday lives of communities; emerging multiple and intersecting identities; the dynamics of power and marked “bodies;” and social processes of exclusions and production of hierarchies.

In this keynote address -- the second part of a three-part conference held annually by William Paterson University's College of Humanities & Social Sciences -- Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Associate Professor of Social Psychology at UCLA and the co-founder and president for research at the Center for Policing Equity, speaks on racial bias and discrimination by illustrating how contextual and/or institutional factors impact racially unequal outcomes.

[jayraskin]

Brilliant and excellent points. Thanks for posting this.

[johnries]

If nothing else, abandoning imputations about people's motivations and focusing on outcomes is likely to reduce the defensiveness.

[jsnadrian]

When people talk about pseudo intellectual capture by statists … this is it.