Join us for CAAS’s first meeting in the 2024-2025 academic year! Thursday, September 19 at the Elm City Club, 155 Elm Street, New Haven.
Phillip Atiba Solomon, Ph.D., Chair and Carl I. Hovland Professor of African American Studies, Professor of Psychology, Yale University, and co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity, will speak on “Towards a Social Ecology of Racism: To pay onlineEvidence from Public Safety.”
Reception: 4:45
Talk: 5:30
Dinner: 6:30
Come between 4:45 and 5:00 if possible to enjoy the reception.
“Psychology has played an outsized role in defining racism in the public imagination. As psychological research tends to reduce the phenomenon of racism to ever smaller mechanisms, the popular conception of racism has come to focus disproportionately on processes within an individual. This focus on individual-level factors occludes the role that history and power play in producing racial stratification. What, then, should we do with psychological science of racism? Across a series of studies of racism in public safety, Dr. Solomon will sketch the levels of analysis that a fuller psychology of racism would engage, using both laboratory and field research. His hope is that taking seriously the science of racism produces insights that allow us to attack it more seriously.”
CAAS members: email caas.membership@yale.edu if you did not receive, or cannot locate, your invitation email; and wish to make a dinner reservation.