How do unconscious and implicit biases result in daily racial microaggressions in school communities, particularly for young Black men? Theory followed by discussion.

1. St. Andrew’s Episcopal School
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Seattle Girls’ School
Implicit and Unconscious Bias
and Racial Microaggressions
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2. About Seattle Girls’ School
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3. Agenda
 Implicit and Unconscious Bias
 Microaggressions
 What We Can Do
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4. About Seattle Girls’ School
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5. About Seattle Girls’ School
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“…the human mind takes in 11 million
bits of information every minute. But is
consciously aware of only 40.”
Timothy Wilson, University of Virginia
And since your brain cannot process 11
million bits of information a minute, it
takes mental shortcuts
The Human Brain

6. About Seattle Girls’ School
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Our Biased Brain

7. About Seattle Girls’ School
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Our Biased Brain

8. About Seattle Girls’ School
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Our Biased Brain

9. About Seattle Girls’ School
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Our Biased Brain

10. About Seattle Girls’ School
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Our Biased Brain

11. About Seattle Girls’ School
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Our Biased Brain

12. About Seattle Girls’ School
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Our Biased Brain

13. Facial Features and Skin Tones
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Study by Daniel Levin and Mahzarin Banaji

14. Implicit Bias in Daily Life
 Black Facial Features Prison Sentences
 Asians in Leadership
 Women in Leadership
 Black Boys as Older and Less Innocent
 Resume Studies
 Weight and Laziness
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15. Implicit Bias at in Schools
 Undermining of Women in Leadership
 Questioning Qualifications of People of Color
 Correlation Between Race and Socioeconomics
 Dismissal of Mental Health Challenges
 Girls and Their Exercise of Leadership
 Black Assertion as Aggression or Defiance
 Talkativeness as Academic Excellence
 Linguistic Diversity as Intellectual Deficit
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16.  Microassaults
– Explicit
– Conscious and Deliberate
– Backstage Spaces
 Microinsults
– Hidden
– Often Unknown or Unintended
– Frontstage Spaces
 Microinvalidation
Zooming In: Microaggressions
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17.  Alien in Own Land
 Ascription of Intelligence
 Colorblindness
 Criminality/Assumption of Criminal Status
 Denial of Individual Racism
 Myth of Meritocracy
 Pathologizing Cultural Values/Styles
 Second-Class Citizen
 Environmental
Microaggressions/Macroaggressions
Racial Microaggressions
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18.  What are you doing here?
 You’re here for the sports.
 I treat everybody the same.
 Same behaviors, harsher punishment
 No one here is racist.
 Only qualified students should get in here.
 Why are you so loud and angry?
 Invasion of bodily space.
 Lack of representation.
Black Boys and Young Men
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19. What Can We Do About It?
 Perspective Taking
 Increased, Meaningful, Inter-Group
Contact
 Stereotype Replacement
 Improvement of Decision Making
 Counting and Systematizing
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20. Break
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21. Strategizing
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22. To Keep in Mind:
 Write down all answers to prompts.
 Think about which items you’d like to
share with the larger group.
 Everyone in the group is invited to stand
together.
 Decide who will share items and how.
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23. Share Outs
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24. Inclusive Communities
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25. Presenter Information
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
6th Faculty and
Professional Outreach
Seattle Girls’ School
2706 S Jackson Street
Seattle WA 98144
(206) 805-6562
rlee@seattlegirlsschool.org
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26. Communication Resources
• “Stereotype Threat” by Joshua Aronson
• Brenda J. Allen, Difference Matters: Communicating
Social Identity
• William Gudykunst, Cross-Cultural and Intercultural
Comunication
• Milton Bennett, PhD, Intercultural Communication
Institute www.intercultural.org
• “Non-Verbal Communication Across Cultures” by Erica
Hagen, Intercultural Communication Resources
• Thiagi.com
• Thrive! Team Dynamics
• http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/action_science_
history.htm
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27. Courageous Conversation Resources
• Anti-Defamation League
• Brené Brown
• Cross Cultural Connections
(www.CulturesConnecting.com)
• National Coalition Building Institute
• The People’s Institute
• Stirfry Seminars
• Teaching Tolerance
• The Thiagi Group
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28. Miscellaneous Resources
• Karen Bradberry and Johnnie Foreman, “Privilege and
Power,” Summer Diversity Institute, National Association
of Independent Schools, 2009
• Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, Nurture Shock
• Kevin Jennings, GLSEN (Gay Lesbian and Straight Education
Network) www.glsen.org
• Allan G. Johnson, Privilege, Power, and Difference
• Johnnie McKinley, “Leveling the Playing Field and Raising
African American Students’ Achievement in Twenty-nine
Urban Classrooms,” New Horizons for Learning,
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/differentiated/
mckinley.htm
Michael J Nakkula and Eric Toshalis, Understanding Youth.
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