Patrons Only: The Gang Fix Diversity Trainings
In today's patrons-only episode, Katie and Jesse discuss a viral chart hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture that is puh-retty racist. Then, after a brief detour to discuss a book excerpt in The Cut that problematizes interracial friendships, the host take a rare, deeply uncomfortable turn toward positivity: What sorts of antiracist/diversity trainings would work? The answer has to do with an important theory called the contact hypothesis -- a theory that is being gleefully ignored by just about all of the most successful purveyors of contemporary diversity-training curricula.
Show notes/Links:
NY Mag: There’s a Divide in Even the Closest Interracial Friendships - https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/book-excerpt-big-friendship-by-aminatou-sow-ann-friedman.html
NY Mag: Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job - https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-tool-isnt-up-to-the-job.html
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: A Meta-Analysis of Procedures to Change Implicit Measures - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308926636_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Procedures_to_Change_Implicit_Measures
NY Mag: How Microaggression Training Could Harm Minority Students - https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/how-microaggression-training-could-harm-minority-students.html
Perspectives on Psychological Science: Microaggressions: Strong Claims, Inadequate Evidence - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312402985_Microaggressions_Strong_Claims_Inadequate_Evidence
NY Mag: The Contact Hypothesis Offers Hope for the World - https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/the-contact-hypothesis-offers-hope-for-the-world.html
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16737372/
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