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RACIAL INEQUITIES IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
WEB RESOURCES FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY |
This website is maintained by Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D., at the Department of
Psychology,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Demographics | Definitions | Stereotypes
| The Inequities
| Teaching Resources
Popular Culture | Anti-racism
| Organizations | Historical Resources| Bibliographies | Online Interactive
Demographics
- U.S. Census Hotlinks
U.S. Census links to the latest data on racial and ethnic populations
in the United States
Defining race, ethnicity, and nationality
Stereotypes
- Implict Association Test (IAT) The following explanation is taken from different portions of the
web site and edited for coherence:
It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it
is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such
divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents
a new method that demonstrates public-private and conscious-unconscious
divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous
methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT
for short. There are several different IATs on this site, including
the Race ('Black-White') IAT. This IAT requires the ability to distinguish
faces of European and African origin and basic fluency in English.
The Black-White IAT may be our most distressing test because it indicates
that most Americans have an automatic preference for White over Black.
- Stereotypical Representations
Documenting the inequities
- American-Pictures Over 3500 photographs (and many essays) about race and racial oppression in the United States and elsewhere
Teaching resources
- APA's psychology of racism page. User-friendly description of
what psychology can tell us about prejudice, discrimination, and racism.
Includes brief summaries of research studies.
- Linguistic FAQ Black english, foreign accents and other linguistic information
- Race and morality resources This site site has powerpoint presentations relating to race/ethnicity and
ethics, links to Supreme Court decisions
that pertainted to race issues, including the Brown v Board of Education
(some Supreme Court cases include a RealAudio of oral arguments) and NPR audio files of several Talk of the Nation segments dealing with race, as well as audio of many speeches and interviews.
- Teaching Tolerance Teaching tolerance is a national education project dedicated to helping
teachers foster equality, respect, and understanding in the classroom and
beyond. The web site contains various classroom activities aimed at
different age groups, including:
- Understanding Prejudice Educational resources, including exercises and demonstrations, a media corner, and a list of experts on prejudice and related issues
- Whiteness Studies Articles on white identity and privilege, as well as links
to pages on teaching about whiteness, including suggestions for discussion
questions, class activities, and out-of-class projects.
- Humanity Quest
This is an interactive site with classroom exercises and pertinent
questions about racism
- Race, racism, and the law
Course web site with excellent information about race and racism
in relation to education, environment, affirmative action, and law
Racial dynamics in popular culture
- The Barbie experiment Created by the family whose 8-year-old girl did the "Barbie" experiment
in which she showed adults and children two Barbies (one white, one black)
and asked them which they preferred. The school took down her poster
because school official were afraid it would make other children feel uncomfortable,
which is when the national and even international media picked up the story.
- Racism in popular science fiction
The author doesn't have a mainstream definition
of racism (e.g., some of the issues that the author takes with
Star Trek are not so much about racism but about how Star Trek TNG essentializes
race, that is attributes characteristics like courage to race and assumes
that they are unchangeable) but many of the points are nevertheless valid.
- African American Lives Family history and geneology of 12 well-known African Americans and the science of DNA and geneological research (PBS)
Anti-racism
- Crosspoint Links to over 2000 anti-racism organizations and websites in over 100 countries
Organizations
Historical Resources
- Bobby Seale.com
Web site of the co-founder of the Black Panthers, includes a Black Panthers photo tour
Bibliographies
Online Interactive
- Dare To Ask Y? discussion forum on race relations and other controversial issues
- Humanity Quest
An interactive site allowing keyword searches for music, books,
comics, etc. that deal with racism.
© 2001-2008, Mikhail Lyubansky