Racial Justice Task Force

Programs and Events

Reflections from Past Events

Reflecting on the Racial Healing Practice Challenge

Read below thoughts from our community members as they reflected on the Healing Challenge:

  • "[I was grateful] to have things I said as a person of color open the eyes of my colleagues."
  • "[I appreciated] hearing colleagues backgrounds and perspectives - truly learning and listening to each other as humans not as fellow employees."
One big takeaway is that I should not let the fear of engaging in difficult conversations stop me from trying. I did make mistakes and it was okay.

Reflecting on Big Questions

Read below thoughts from our community members as they reflected on the Big Questions series:

  • "[I learned] all the ways that race is not acknowledged or made publicly aware in our spaces."
  • "Anti-racism is necessary and long term for any change to happen."
I learned that it is "ok" to step outside of the system and address these issues at the top!

Event Recordings

This semester, the Racial Justice Task Force and our partners have collaborated to bring several speakers whose work focuses on different aspects of racial justice. Recordings for some of our sessions are available if you were unable to attend. The Office of Sustainability’s discussion with Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., the founder and CEO of Hip Hop Caucus and an environmental justice advocate, can be viewed here.

In Tacit Racism, Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck illustrate the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social expectations of Americans, in what they call Interaction Orders of Race. They argue that these interactions can produce racial inequality, whether the people involved are aware of it or not, and that by overlooking tacit racism in favor of the fiction of a "color-blind" nation, we are harming not only our society's most disadvantaged--but endangering the society itself.

Anne Rawls is a Professor of Sociology at Bentley University.

Tacit Racism is available to download from the Bentley library. See link for the book https://bentleydownload.overdrive.com/media/5534108

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Upcoming Events

Past Events

29 Tuesday Sep 1:00PM

Fireside Chat with Nick Noel, McKinsey & Company

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13 Tuesday Oct 2:00PM

Conversation with Anne Rawls and Waverly Duck on Tacit Racism: a Clear and Present Danger

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21 Wednesday Oct 3:30PM

Big Question 1: How Does Race Show Up on Bentley’s Campus?

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03 Tuesday Nov 2:00PM

Big Question 2: How Does Racism Show Up on Bentley’s Campus?

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10 Tuesday Nov 2:00PM

Let's Talk About Environmental Justice

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16 Monday Nov 11:00AM

Big Question 3: How Do We Define Student and Alumni Success at Bentley?

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