The Way Racism Hides From Us - Tricia Rose & Rashad Robinson in conversation about "Metaracism" book

Tricia Rose speaks with Rashad Robinson, President of Color of Change about some of the major themes of her new book, "Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free." Responding to Robinson's reflections on the pressure to oversimplify problems into essentially empty soundbites, Tricia explains how the stories we tell commonly reduce racism to an analysis of individual decisions and personalities. She then explains how this oversimplification serves a smokescreen to hide systemic racism and to prevent us from exploring the deeper, more pervasive and insidious systemic context in which events occur.

This clip is from an event held by Politics and Prose.