4.2 Article or Podcast: Racial Bias
To further deepen your understanding of bias and single stories, we invite you to either read an article or listen to a podcast.
(1) The following article, written by Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, Meredith Meyer, and Edward Freeland, discusses how gender and race are mapped onto disciplines in terms of "brilliance", over representing those which are whiter and male dominated.
(2) The following podcast by Kelefa Sanneh’s describes sitting in on one of Starbucks’ anti-racial bias classes.
Podcast: All the Caffeine in the World Doesn’t Make You Woke Links to an external site.
Our Stories Matter
Implicit biases are malleable, and you can form strategies to help you cultivate new ways of approaching them. Take a moment to reflect on how single stories operate and how stories matter by considering these questions:
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How can single stories operate in your personal life? How can single stories operate in your professional practice? What strategies do you presently use to challenge a single story? |
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Consider these question in relation to different aspects of teaching, such as:
- your syllabus
- student engagement
- forms of assessment
- classroom arrangement
- course policies
- images or examples used when lecturing or explaining concepts
- course resources