This session was hosted as part of the 2021 virtual 25th Anniversary event, “Forward Together: Where Science, Ethics, and Religion Intersect in a Changing World.“
Race is a social construct, yet has real impacts on our biology as individuals and on communities. Just as science has been responsible for creating and perpetuating harmful conceptions of race, the processes of science can help us understand the complexities of human diversity and address the structures of history, politics, culture, economics, and health that underlie racial divisions. This session explored race from a scientific perspective, as well as the the role that religion and faith communities have played in both perpetuating racism and in fostering racial justice.