'Undoing Racism' Workshop Held in Abilene
By: BigCountryHomePage.com Staff Reports
Updated: May 11, 2012
The Center for the Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities held a workshop on eliminating racism from institutions on Friday.
The Undoing Racism introductory workshop was held to help raise awareness of the presence and impact of racism in institutions.
The workshop helps to point out unintentional bias that can be overlooked in organizational policies.
"There is an unconscious bias that exists in all of us and that the way to recognize it is to do work that provides information that serves to elevate people's consciousness around these issues so that then we can make decisions from a different place," says Joyce James of the Center for the Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities.
The belief of the workshop is that racism can be undone by training individuals to recognize unintentional racism.
The Undoing Racism introductory workshop was held to help raise awareness of the presence and impact of racism in institutions.
The workshop helps to point out unintentional bias that can be overlooked in organizational policies.
"There is an unconscious bias that exists in all of us and that the way to recognize it is to do work that provides information that serves to elevate people's consciousness around these issues so that then we can make decisions from a different place," says Joyce James of the Center for the Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities.
The belief of the workshop is that racism can be undone by training individuals to recognize unintentional racism.
