October 9th

How to Measure Racism (and other consequential concepts)

Professor Lilly Mason will present today on Racism. The readings are (Brown et al., 2025) and (Field et al., 2021)

References

2025

Advancing the scientific study of structural racism: concepts, measures, and methods

Tyson H Brown, Patricia Homan, and Victor Ray

Annual review of sociology, 2025

@article{brown2025advancing,
  title = {Advancing the scientific study of structural racism: concepts, measures, and methods},
  author = {Brown, Tyson H and Homan, Patricia and Ray, Victor},
  journal = {Annual review of sociology},
  volume = {51},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Annual Reviews}
}

2021

A Survey of Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism in NLP

Anjalie Field, Su Lin Blodgett, Zeerak Talat, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2021

Bib

@inproceedings{field2021survey,
  title = {A Survey of Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism in NLP},
  author = {Field, Anjalie and Blodgett, Su Lin and Talat, Zeerak and Tsvetkov, Yulia},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  pages = {1905--1925},
  year = {2021}
}