Resource Lounge

Bias Awareness

Resource Lounge Bias Awareness

CURIOSITY WITHOUT JUDGMENT

This resource lounge aims to be an introduction to Bias Awareness identities, terms, and topics for the curious and allies. These resources are not prescriptive and cannot cover all Diversity, Inclusion communities and experiences.

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  • Project Implicit

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    The Implicit Association Test (IAT) assesses attitudes and beliefs that individuals might be reluctant or unable to disclose. It can be particularly revealing if it uncovers an implicit attitude you were previously unaware of.

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  • The Look Conversation Guide

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    A guide on continuing the conversation around bias awareness.

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  • Unconscious Bias at Work—Making the Unconscious Conscious

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  • Who, Me? Biased? - Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism

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    What is implicit bias? NYT/POV's Saleem Reshamwala unscrews the lid on the unfair effects of our subconscious.

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  • Vernā Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them | TED Talk

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    Description goes hereOur biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.

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