Workshop on Data Equity Issues in Quantifying Racism, Race and Ethnicity

This event qualifies for 2 hours of credit toward the Gillings School’s annual inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff.

Efforts to establish the science of social statistics preoccupied itself with developing methods to situate race variables as causes of social inequality. Yet, efforts to affirm the role of racism as a sociopolitical condition effectively dethroned social statistics as the superordinate describe racial/ethnic processes. As a result, students of statistics are often blind to how best to examine systemic racism; and, consequently, students of racism, race and ethnicity are often disenchanted with statistics.

This workshop will introduce methodological tools to improve the capacities of quantitative data to identify racial and ethnic inequities. Special attention is paid to assessments of the sociopolitical conditions that prescribe systemic racism as a social fact.

Registration required.