Title: What are the consequences of stereotypes? - Getting Race Right
Headings: What are the consequences of stereotypes?
What are the consequences of stereotypes?
It’s so easy to see in an experiment
And so difficult to see in real life
Stereotypes influence how we think about other people
Stereotypes influence how we behave toward other people
Stereotypes perpetuate inequality and place a significant burden on those affected
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Content: the other half saw the Black man push the White man. Everything else in the video was the same, and the two shoves were carefully choreographed to be as much alike as possible. How did the viewers interpret what they had seen? Fully 75% of those who saw the Black man do the shoving said that it was a violent act, intended to harm the White man. But only 17% of those who saw the White man do the shoving said that he was violent. Instead, they said that he was making a point, or trying to be playful. Both groups accurately described seeing one man shove another, but they interpreted it in very different ways depending on the race of the person doing the shoving ( Duncan, 1976 ). And so difficult to see in real life
In 2014, the Press Office of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights reported that Black students make up 18% of all American preschoolers, but 42% of those who get suspended from preschool. Suspended. From preschool.