Colorblindness
Color Blind or Just Plain Blind? http://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/racism10.htm
This
article discusses how racism has mutated to partially hide itself from
view—perhaps not from the view of those who experience its effects—but
certainly from the view of those who practice what has come to be called
“aversive racism.”
Racism study finds people indifferent to slurs, overt bias
http://forum.revhh.org/index.php?topic=3038.0;wap2
Blatant
racism not censured or shunned in study. Despite what they think they
would do, people are remarkably blase when actually confronted with
blatant racism, a new study shows. Canadian researchers who tested
people's reactions to anti-black comments found a surprisingly high
tolerance for racial slurs -- including "one of the most offensive words
in the English language." Not only did people not get as upset as
people predicted they would, the slur didn't influence their willingness
to choose a white racist as a partner to solve a word puzzle. In fact,
people preferred the white over the black person who was the target of
the slur. The findings, published this week in the journal Science,
suggest that while people think they would be very upset by a racist
act, and take action, "they actually respond with indifference." "People
don't really punish people who act in racist ways," says lead author
Kerry Kawakami, a psychology professor at York University's faculty of
health in Toronto.
Chapter 5: Perceiving Groups (Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination
http://www.usu.edu/psy3510/prejudice.html
Cool outline about groups with data, charts, and examples.
Unraveling the Knot of Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson http://www.agjohnson.us/
Individuals
and systems are connected to each other through a dynamic relationship.
If we use it as a model for thinking about the world and ourselves,
it’s easier to bring problems like racism, sexism, and ableism out into
the open and talk about them. In particular, it’s easier to see the
problems in relation to us, and to see ourselves in relation to them.
Here is an example of some of the notes from this professor:
What Impact do Stereotypes Have?
Distort our perceptions: The contrast effect
Once stereotype is activated, these traits easily come to mind
Affect the information we attend to and, therefore, notice and quickly process
We'll attend more to stereotype-consistent information
Stereotype-inconsistent information activates attempts to disconfirm/reject it
Stereotypes obviously affect social judgments we make about other:
They influence how much we like the person
They are reflected in the mood the person "puts" us in (black example)
Our expectations regarding probability of certain behaviors in the person
Snyder's ideas regarding selective perception and behavioral confirmation
Beyond Prejudice
http://www.beyondprejudice.com/under_stand.html
Prejudices will be dealt with here as a single set of dynamics that function to dehumanize people who are identifiably different in some way from the people whose perceptions are limited by the dysfunction we call prejudice. This approach is taken for two reasons. First, it is easily defensible through the understanding of the dynamics of prejudices; and second, the continued separation and classification of prejudices according to the superficial categories of those who are prejudiced is a disservice to those who are the targets of discrimination and a distortion of reality.
We have for too long focused upon the victims of prejudices as we have the victims of rape. It has been "their problem." To continue to write or talk about racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, xenophobia, and the ways disabled people and others are treated is counterproductive. The process of focusing upon the victims serves no purpose in the prevention or reduction of prejudices. That approach looks at the problem in sub-categories based upon those who are the targets of prejudice behavior and distracts from the understanding that all prejudices are fundamentally the same. It also distracts us from the understanding of the various dynamics which together are called prejudices.
Deconstructing Categories: The Exposure of Silent Racism
http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/si.2001.24.2.141 by Barbara Trepagnier
Adultism
http://www.freechild.org/bell.htm
The Multiple Futures of Racism: Beyond the Myth of Race Through a New Paradigm for Resolution in the Third Millennium
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/caleb/futures_of_racism.html
By Caleb Rosado, Ph.D.*
The persistence of the bio-psycho-social-spiritual phenomenon of racism can best be understood by unpacking these four aspects of racism-its bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions. In these four dimensions reside the root causes of it emergence and persistence, as well as it elimination…
Unraveling the Knot of Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson http://www.agjohnson.us/
Individuals and systems are connected to each other through a dynamic relationship. If we use it as a model for thinking about the world and ourselves, it’s easier to bring problems like racism, sexism, and able-ism out into the open and talk about them. In particular, it’s easier to see the problems in relation to us, and to see ourselves in relation to them.
If we think the world is just about individuals, then a white woman who’s told she’s ‘involved’ in racism is going to think you’re telling her she’s a racist person who harbors ill will toward people of color. She’s using an individualistic model of the world that limits her to interpreting words like ‘racist’ as personality flaws. Individualism divides the world up into different kinds of people – good people and bad, racists and nonracists, ‘good guys’ and sexist pigs. It encourages us to think of racism, sexism, and heterosexism as diseases that infect people and make them sick. And so we look for a ‘cure’ that will turn diseased, flawed individuals into healthy, ‘good’ ones or at least isolate them so that they can’t infect others. And if we can’t cure them, then we can at least try to control their behavior.
