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What is Implicit Racial Bias?
q Implicit racial bias is a mental process that causes most of us to have nega6ve adtudes about people or groups of people based only on their race or ethnicity.
q Typically, these people are not members of our own racial or ethic “in group,” although implicit bias can
also be directed at people who look and think like we do.
q Many researchers believe that implicit racial bias is fueled by “symbolic” adtudes that we all develop over the course of our lives star6ng at a very early age.
q These adtudes are formed from distorted message that we are exposed to every day from a variety of sources-‐television, newspapers, magazines, conversa6ons with people we trust-‐that depict African Americans and other people of color in a nega6ve light.
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Implicit Bias
*The human brain can take in 11 million pieces of informa6on in any one moment *We’re only consciously aware of maybe 40 of these -‐ at best. *Only 2% of emo6onal cogni6on is available to us consciously *Racial bias tends to reside in the unconscious network *Messages can be framed to speak to our unconscious
Schemas
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• They help us organize informa6on into broader categories and conserve mental resources – objects (e.g., “chairs”) – behaviors (e.g., “ordering food”) – human being (e.g., “the elderly”) – Situa6onal cues
• Schemas and the unconscious are social. They exist in and our shaped by our environment. – Experiences with other people – Percep6ons of structures – Narra6ves
• Stories, books, movies, media, and culture
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Awareness Test
Table Talk
• What’s coming up about Implicit Bias for you?
Internalized Percep6ons • We unconsciously think about race even when we do not
explicitly discuss it.
• You can’t avoid bias by avoiding race; it does not work. • Conversa6ons about race are not easy, but they are vital.
q Environments & narra6ves maYer
Source: Lester, Julius. Let’s Talk About Race
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