Unconscious Bias: Learn More

Tools and resources:

• Project Implicit, find our your implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other topics: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ • More Facebook videos and tools: https://managingbias.fb.com/ • Re:Work guide – Raise awareness about unconscious bias, from Google: https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/unbiasing-raise-awareness/steps/introduction/ • Test yourself for hidden bias, Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.tolerance.org/activity/test-yourself-hidden-bias • Four Days to Change: 12 Radical Habits to Overcome Bias and Thrive in a Diverse World, by Michael Welp, PhD: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30039076-four-days-to- change • White Supremacy Culture, Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, 2001: https://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/preserve/museums/files/White_Supremacy_Cult ure.pdf

Videos:

• The danger of a single story, TED Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story • Understanding unconscious bias, The Royal Society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=179&v=dVp9Z5k0dEE • Acala on everyday racism: what should we do? – video, The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/mar/18/everyday-racism-what- should-we-do?CMP=share_btn_link • Playing With Perceptions, TED Radio Hour, NPR, October 30, 2015: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/358360814/playing-with- perceptions?showDate=2015-10-30 • Additional TED Talks on unconscious bias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rspZv2a0Pp8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCFb4BiDDcE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkmVv54e6M&t=12s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6lRmEdP4fA

Articles:

• Dear White America, George Yancy, New York Times, December 24, 2015: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/dear-white-america/?emc=eta1 • 3 reasons to smile even if the world is still sexist and racist, Erica Williams Simon, upworthy.com, October 10, 2015: http://www.upworthy.com/3-reasons-to-smile-even-if- the-world-is-still-sexist-and- racist?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+upworthy+%28Upworthy%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_s ource=feedburner • Police Body Cameras: What Do You See?, Timothy Williams, James Thomas, Samuel Jacoby and Damien Cave, New York Times, April 1, 2016: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/us/police-bodycam- video.html?emc=eta1 • Philanthropy Must Understand Racism Is Not Dead, Tamara Copeland, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 21, 2016: https://www.unitedphilforum.org/news/op-ed- philanthropy-must-understand-racism-not-dead • How Norms Change, Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker, October 11, 2017: https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/how-norms-change • Anti-Asian bias, not affirmative action, is on trial in the Harvard Case, Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, October 11, 2018: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our- columnists/anti-asian-bias-not-affirmative-action-is-on-trial-in-the-harvard-case • White Male Victimization Anxiety, Charles Blow, New York Times, October 10, 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/opinion/trump-white-male-victimization.html • How the Mind Rationalizes Homophobia, Nathaniel Frank, The Atlantic, February 21, 2014: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/how-the-mind-rationalizes- homophobia/283998/?utm_source=atl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share • Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism, Kathleen Osta and Hugh Vasquez, National Equity Project, June 13, 2019: https://medium.com/national- equity-project/implicit-bias-structural-racism-6c52cf0f4a92 • Your Unconscious Bias Trainings Keep Failing Because You’re Not Addressing Systemic Bias, Janice Gassam, Forbes, December 29, 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/12/29/your-unconscious-bias-trainings- keep-failing-because-youre-not-addressing-systemic- bias/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie%2F#444e354b1e9 d • Is This Soap Dispenser RACIST?, Sage Lazzaro, Daily Mail, August 17, 2017: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4800234/Is-soap-dispenser-RACIST.html • Why I’m a Racist, Jeff Cook, HuffPost, July 15, 2016: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why- im-a-racist_b_57893b9ee4b0e7c873500382