YOUR BRAIN ON BIAS
As humans we are highly susceptible to suggestion and start receiving "programming" about who and what we are as soon as we leave the womb. Use these resources to explore unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and understand how our choices are shaped.
As humans we are highly susceptible to suggestion and start receiving "programming" about who and what we are as soon as we leave the womb. Use these resources to explore unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and understand how our choices are shaped.
- The Hidden Brain, How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives by Shankar Vedantam: Book & Podcast
- Perception Institute: Implicit Bias Explained & Transforming Perception
- Implicit Association Test: an interactive test providing a window into your implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other identities
- Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity: State of the Science
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robyn DiAngelo: The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi: The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
- Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino: A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author's life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.
- Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send (PDF)