Social Justice: Bias

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Click on book for TedEd 4:13
Everything that is faced
can be changed,
but nothing can be changed
​until it is faced.

― James Baldwin
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Click on book for video 3:34
The assignments that have activities are in red.
Listen to the podcast: The Air we Breathe ​(38 min.)
Questions for Discussion:
  • Do you agree or disagree with Shankar Vendantam and Mahzarin Banaji?
  •  As they discuss the incident compare it to your results from the Implicit Bias Test? 
  • What are other ways one might draw comparisons in behavior?
  • Does this person's actions indicate that they are racist or is something else at work?
What is Implicit Bias?   
Research on “implicit bias” suggests that people can act on the basis of prejudice and stereotypes without intending to do so. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Instructions:  Under the first button there is a worksheet where you can take notes.
​Under the second button there are instructions for taking the Harvard Implicit Bias Test. 
Take the test for the following topics:   1. Race, 2. Skin Tone, 3. Weapons 
​Discuss your results with your fellow classmates or write a reflection responding to some of the questions on the Bias Worksheet. 
We were unarmed, but we knew that blackness armed us, even though we had no guns.
​― Ibram X. Kendi, How to be an Antiracist
  • To continue the discussion on bias, watch the brief video (2 min:32) .
  • Is the person who called the police a racist or exhibiting racist behavior?
  • How does the man in the video feel?
  • ​How do you think he "should" interpret the events? 
  • ​Consider and brainstorm on ways we can work towards combating our biases so we can more clearly respond to situations?
The Whitest Towns in America
Watch the TedX Video  (13:00)
​Complete the worksheet  as you watch the video.
Afterwards discuss the comments in light of what we have previously discussed.
​Do you agree or disagree with the presenter's conclusions? 
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