Monday, March 19, 2018, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

Erika V. Hall, Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Goizueta Business School

"Black and Blue: Exploring Racial Bias and Law Enforcement in the Killings of Unarmed Black Male Civilians"

“Intersectionality” is the word that best characterizes Erika Hall’s research, focusing as it does on the influence of race, gender, and class-based implicit biases on interactions within the workplace and society-as-a-whole. Her presentation for the Colloquium will, however, center on one kind of bias in particular, namely, racial bias, and how the attitudes associated with skin color affect interactions between the police and the members of the public whom they’re charged to “protect and serve.”  She will share the results of others’ studies of this complex subject (and her own)—results she earlier shared with (other) scholarly colleagues in an article published in American Psychologist.