Are we born racist? : new insights from neuroscience and positive psychology /

Are we born racist? : new insights from neuroscience and positive psychology / edited by Jason Marsh, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Jeremy Adam Smith. - 149 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Are we born racist? / Susan T. Fiske -- Prejudice versus positive thinking / Kareem Johnson -- Framed! understanding achievement gaps / Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- When racism makes us sick / Eve Ekman and Jeremy Adam Smith -- The unhealthy racist / Elizabeth Page-Gould -- The egalitarian brain / David Amodio -- How to talk with kids about race / Allison Briscoe-Smith -- Promoting tolerance and equality in schools / Jennifer Holladay -- The perils of color blindness / Dottie Blais -- Overcoming prejudice in the workplace / Jennifer A. Chatman -- Policing bias / Alex Dixon -- "People understanding each other by talking" / Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- Success strategies for interracial couples / Anita Foeman and Terry Nance -- The bicultural advantage / Ross D. Parke, Scott Coltrane and Thomas Schofield -- "How can you do that to your choldren?" / Meredith Maran -- Me and my nose / Rona Fernandez -- Double blood / Rebeca Walker -- Truth + Reconciliation / Desmond Tutu.

Investigates where prejudices originate, and attempts to answer why and how brains form prejudices, how they can hurt an individual's health, how to diminish them, and what a world without prejudice might look like.

0807011576 9780807011577

2009039744


Prejudices
Racism--Psychological aspects

BF575.P9 / A74 2010

305.80019

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