Take Your Feet Off Our Necks: Implicit Bias in the Workplace

Professional accomplishments notwithstanding, women and people of color all too often face microaggression, diminution, and exclusion in a workforce that equates white collar with white male. Unpack race-based and gender-based WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION WITH TSEDALE MELAKU, author of _You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer_, VINCENT SOUTHERLAND, Executive Director of NYU’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, and JAMIA WILSON, publisher of the Feminist Press. Moderated by ERICA CHITO CHILDS, Chairman of Sociology at Hunter College.For questions about this event or other inquiries, contact our Visitor Services desk at 718-222-4111, ext. 250. Take Your Feet Off Our NECKS: IMPLICIT BIAS IN THE WORKPLACE    Wednesday, February 26 Doors: 6:00 pm Event: 6:30 pm $15 GENERAL ADMISSION / $10 FOR MEMBERS BHS MEMBERS: Members receive up to 2 discounted tickets! To attend this event at the discounted rate, click "Enter Promotional Code" and type in the code you received by e-mail. Forgot the code? Call the front desk at 718-222-4111. REFUND POLICY: Brooklyn Historical Society requires 24 hours notice before the date of the event to refund a ticket. No refunds are provided after that point. No refunds are provided on the day of the event and all subsequent days. _BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY public programs are made possible by the New York State Council of the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and, in part, by public funds from the New York Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. _