https://contemporaryracism.org/27681/sisterhoods-lasting-impacts/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sun, 15 Dec 2019 01:43:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/27681/sisterhoods-lasting-impacts/comment-page-1/#comment-1026 Sun, 15 Dec 2019 01:43:37 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=27681#comment-1026 I am the Risk Manager for my sorority and under my job description is diversity and inclusion. Something that my sorority started these past couple of semester is meeting with the multicultural center and starting a conversation on this specific topic. Socioeconomic status and race are interchangeable in this context. Dues for sorority are expensive and so many people feel that this is considered paying for friends. Since sororities, as you stated, are historically white, people of color are considered outsiders. Deciding to be a part of an organization in which you are the only person of color, is not a decision that many people of color are making. Sororities are increasingly exclusive and it seems this is a losing battle for many organizations.

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