The document discusses implicit bias and race from structural and Buddhist perspectives. It argues that traditional views see individuals as autonomous selves, whereas a structural view recognizes that identities are shaped by social interactions. Racial disparities persist not just due to attitudes, but because of seemingly neutral structures. Meditation may help expand awareness of implicit biases by quieting parts of the brain associated with judgment. Addressing implicit bias requires conscious messaging in addition to personal practices like meditation.
Spiral dynamics and the art of thinkingFrances Kazan
This document discusses how consciousness and human perspectives are constantly shifting and evolving. It introduces the concept of levels of consciousness, with people operating from different levels or worldviews that influence how they think and make decisions. Spiral Dynamics is presented as a model that maps these evolving levels of consciousness as an individual's values and beliefs progress through different stages of complexity. The document suggests that training emotional intelligence can allow more people to achieve higher levels of consciousness associated with uncommon thinkers and visionary leaders who approach problems creatively. It promotes understanding different levels of consciousness to navigate today's complex world and invites the reader to learn more about Spiral Dynamics through an upcoming seminar.
Lecture on influential conceptions of consciousness in psychology, social psychology and sociology and their relationship to ideas about identity and self.
The document is a thesis submitted for a Master's degree that examines how the mind can act as either a barrier or doorway to higher consciousness. It discusses Edgar Cayce's view of the mind as having three layers - the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious. The conscious mind operates in the physical world, while the superconscious connects to higher realms, and the subconscious acts as a bridge between the two. However, the subconscious often functions as a "malefactor" that creates a disconnect from the true self through feelings of isolation. The challenge is to unlock the subconscious and use the mind to reconnect to higher consciousness.
Spiral Dynamics Integral is a model that describes human value systems and how they evolve. It identifies eight value systems, or "levels", that correspond to different ways of thinking and viewing the world. These levels form a spiral pattern with each new level building on the previous ones in increased complexity. The model aims to explain how people think about things and make decisions based on their underlying values rather than surface beliefs. It can be applied to understand individuals, groups, organizations, and societies.
Transcultural communication networks and adult cognitive developmentUwe Krüger
This document discusses adult cognitive development and its implications for transcultural communication networks. It summarizes theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, Habermas, and Commons on stages of individual and societal development. These stages impact communication as people at different stages think qualitatively different. Discourse requires post-conventional thinking. Failure to consider stages may explain communicative failures promoting democracy in some societies. Stages are important network features affecting relations between nodes like people and organizations.
Argues that the qualitative character distinctive of conscious perceiving also occurs without being conscious, so that being conscious is not essential to such qualitative character.
The document summarizes the major perspectives in psychology:
1) Humanistic perspective focuses on free will and an individual's potential for growth. Key figures are Maslow and Rogers.
2) Behavioral perspective studies observable behavior and believes behavior can be controlled through environment. Pioneers are Watson and Skinner.
3) Cognitive perspective focuses on how people think and understand the world. Key psychologists are Piaget and Sternberg.
4) Biological (neuroscience) perspective examines the brain and nervous system's effects on behavior. Founders are Bernard and Bell.
5) Psychodynamic perspective views behavior as motivated by unconscious forces. Founders include Freud, Jung, and Adler.
The document discusses various philosophical perspectives on consciousness and their implications for "zombie rights". It proposes a view called complementary dualism where:
1) Both the physical and phenomenal worlds are considered fundamentally real and mutually represent each other, rather than one being primary over the other.
2) This avoids the need for reductive physicalism while also precluding the possibility of zombies, resolving dualism's epistemic issues.
3) It supports assessing phenomenal properties based on physical/functional properties, allowing a common-sense approach to questions of rights and ethics.
Spiral dynamics and the art of thinkingFrances Kazan
This document discusses how consciousness and human perspectives are constantly shifting and evolving. It introduces the concept of levels of consciousness, with people operating from different levels or worldviews that influence how they think and make decisions. Spiral Dynamics is presented as a model that maps these evolving levels of consciousness as an individual's values and beliefs progress through different stages of complexity. The document suggests that training emotional intelligence can allow more people to achieve higher levels of consciousness associated with uncommon thinkers and visionary leaders who approach problems creatively. It promotes understanding different levels of consciousness to navigate today's complex world and invites the reader to learn more about Spiral Dynamics through an upcoming seminar.
Lecture on influential conceptions of consciousness in psychology, social psychology and sociology and their relationship to ideas about identity and self.
The document is a thesis submitted for a Master's degree that examines how the mind can act as either a barrier or doorway to higher consciousness. It discusses Edgar Cayce's view of the mind as having three layers - the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious. The conscious mind operates in the physical world, while the superconscious connects to higher realms, and the subconscious acts as a bridge between the two. However, the subconscious often functions as a "malefactor" that creates a disconnect from the true self through feelings of isolation. The challenge is to unlock the subconscious and use the mind to reconnect to higher consciousness.
Spiral Dynamics Integral is a model that describes human value systems and how they evolve. It identifies eight value systems, or "levels", that correspond to different ways of thinking and viewing the world. These levels form a spiral pattern with each new level building on the previous ones in increased complexity. The model aims to explain how people think about things and make decisions based on their underlying values rather than surface beliefs. It can be applied to understand individuals, groups, organizations, and societies.
Transcultural communication networks and adult cognitive developmentUwe Krüger
This document discusses adult cognitive development and its implications for transcultural communication networks. It summarizes theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, Habermas, and Commons on stages of individual and societal development. These stages impact communication as people at different stages think qualitatively different. Discourse requires post-conventional thinking. Failure to consider stages may explain communicative failures promoting democracy in some societies. Stages are important network features affecting relations between nodes like people and organizations.
Argues that the qualitative character distinctive of conscious perceiving also occurs without being conscious, so that being conscious is not essential to such qualitative character.
The document summarizes the major perspectives in psychology:
1) Humanistic perspective focuses on free will and an individual's potential for growth. Key figures are Maslow and Rogers.
2) Behavioral perspective studies observable behavior and believes behavior can be controlled through environment. Pioneers are Watson and Skinner.
3) Cognitive perspective focuses on how people think and understand the world. Key psychologists are Piaget and Sternberg.
4) Biological (neuroscience) perspective examines the brain and nervous system's effects on behavior. Founders are Bernard and Bell.
5) Psychodynamic perspective views behavior as motivated by unconscious forces. Founders include Freud, Jung, and Adler.
The document discusses various philosophical perspectives on consciousness and their implications for "zombie rights". It proposes a view called complementary dualism where:
1) Both the physical and phenomenal worlds are considered fundamentally real and mutually represent each other, rather than one being primary over the other.
2) This avoids the need for reductive physicalism while also precluding the possibility of zombies, resolving dualism's epistemic issues.
3) It supports assessing phenomenal properties based on physical/functional properties, allowing a common-sense approach to questions of rights and ethics.
"Mental Qualities, Valence, and Intuition: Comments on Machery", PowerPoint presentation at the March 2011 workshop of the Metro Experimental Research Group (M.E.R.G.) at NYU.
This document discusses several secular approaches that can lead to a nondual state, including flow, psychological presence, hot cognition, engagement, and improvisation. Flow involves being fully immersed in an activity using intuition rather than rational thinking. Psychological presence means being fully attentive, connected, integrated, and focused on a task. Hot cognition is more intuitive and unconscious compared to rational cold cognition. Engagement involves passion and absorption in one's work. Improvisation taps unconscious repertoires and relies on intuition, expertise, and being in the moment. These secular concepts are presented as ways to access a nondual state through activities that reduce self-consciousness and rational thinking.
The document discusses the metaphor of organizations as "psychic prisons" and how it can help explain unconscious dynamics in organizations. It describes how organizations can act as prisons that trap people through unconscious myths, stories and defense mechanisms that help control fear and anxiety. Several specific "psychic prisons" are outlined, including those relating to repressed sexuality, patriarchal families, death and immortality, anxiety, and an aversion to change. The metaphor's strengths are that it helps explore hidden meanings and patterns of control in organizations, while its weaknesses are that it can overlook the very real constraints of actual prisons.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the human mind and its connection to higher consciousness. It discusses the mind as having three planes: the conscious mind, subconscious mind, and superconscious or God-mind. The key points are:
1) The subconscious mind acts as an intermediary between the conscious mind and higher self, but often functions as a barrier due to faulty programming from the ego.
2) Breaking through the subconscious barrier is necessary to connect to the higher God-self, but this is challenging as the subconscious mind is 30,000 times more powerful and dominated by limiting beliefs.
3) Taking control of one's thoughts and focusing on positive thinking can help minimize the
Experiential integral ed book group slides 1perspegrity5
This document discusses concepts related to learning, education, spirituality, and integral theory. It presents models of human development, including Spiral Dynamics levels ranging from instinctive to integral. It discusses the progression from ego-centric to world-centric perspectives, pre-conventional to post-conventional thinking, and black-and-white to more nuanced understandings. It also covers wisdom skills, perspective-taking, justification of beliefs, and applying AQAL theory to education.
This document discusses Clifford Geertz's concept of "psychic webs" and how organizations can act as psychic prisons that trap individuals. It explores various ways organizations relate to unconscious forces like patriarchal families, death, anxiety, and archetypes. Various theorists are mentioned like Freud, Foucault, and Taylor and how they view control and the unconscious in organizations. The strengths and limitations of viewing organizations as psychic prisons are discussed as well as how understanding this concept can provide insights but also risks ignoring other real factors in leading organizations.
Psychic prison. Images of OrganizationMona Elashry
1. The document discusses the "psychic prison metaphor" which refers to how people can become trapped by their own ways of thinking and constructions of reality within organizations.
2. It provides examples of how favored ways of thinking and groupthink can trap organizations, preventing them from adapting to change. IBM's focus on hardware prevented it from seeing the potential of software and PCs.
3. Unconscious processes and the desire for repression and conformity play a role in shaping organizational realities and cultures, according to Freudian concepts discussed in the text. Conscious rationales may develop from deeper unconscious preoccupations.
The document discusses the psychic prison metaphor, which depicts how people can become trapped in limited ways of thinking and perceiving reality. It originated with philosopher Plato's allegory of the cave, where prisoners saw only shadows on the cave wall. The metaphor is now used in organizational behavior, with examples like groupthink leading to poor decision making. Understanding organizations through concepts like unconscious desires, family dynamics, and symbols can provide insights, though it also has limitations like neglecting conscious ideological factors.
Consciousness management the missing dimension of modern managementSandeep Gupta
Premise:
1. Confining management to the business world is a highly microscopic view.
2. Management is intrinsic to humans. It starts with birth and ends with death
3. Management is a process; therefore it produces only results, not good results or bad results.
4. It is the quality of one’s consciousness (ability to see, think & act) which makes the results good or bad.
5. Human consciousness is trainable and the entire Indian wisdom of individual and society growth revolves around it.
6. Consciousness training enables humans to transcend from ‘I-Me-My’ way of life to the ‘We-Our-Us’ way of life and bring about a change in self, society and the physical world.
7. For those who have been hard-wired by the 20th century scientism and do not accept anything without empirical data, the last 2 slides demonstrate how operating from a higher level of consciousness leads to higher success and productivity even in areas such as business.
Accurate Group of Companies is an ISO 9001:2008 certified group of companies established in 1993 with the aim of providing electrical control panels and systems. The group has achieved over INR 40 Cr in annual sales and plans to reach INR 100 Cr by 2012. It has a fully equipped manufacturing facility spread over 36,000 square feet that includes sheet metal fabrication, welding, and electrical and mechanical testing equipment. The group has completed several prestigious projects including supplying over 4,000 AMF panels to Reliance Infocom and exporting to South African countries.
Wy 1932-senate-hearing-on-granting-remaining-unreserved-public-lands-to-state...American Lands Council
The document summarizes hearings held by the Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys regarding bills proposing to grant vacant unreserved public lands to accepting states. It includes statements from government officials, representatives of industry groups, and others discussing the potential impacts and benefits of transferring public lands from federal to state control, with a focus on subsurface mineral rights. Key points of debate included whether states were capable of responsibly administering large land grants and mineral revenues, and ensuring use for the benefit of their citizens.
Mass. Dept. of Public Utilities Ruling to Allow Berkshire Gas to Purchase Nat...Marcellus Drilling News
A ruling from the Massachusetts State Dept. of Public Utilities that approves Berkshire Gas' contract with Kinder Morgan to purchase new supplies of natural gas from the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline--if the pipeline ever gets built.
Tutorial para transformar objetos en photoshop / Transform Objects in Photoshopdesignpaolalozano
A Short, easy and effective Photoshop Tutorial about transforming objects. Un tutorial, fácil y simple para transformar objetos en Photoshop fácilmente.
The document lists various factors to consider when selecting a wedding reception venue, including whether the ceremony and reception will be at the same venue, the number of guests, the venue's capacity, if it will be a seated or standing reception, venue themes, checking the venue contract, fees like corkage, accommodating guests' accessibility needs, staff flexibility, transportation and parking, restrictions, lighting for photography, decor package options, and ability to borrow extras. The final section indicates the document discusses important factors to evaluate when choosing a wedding reception venue.
The document contains a table listing the names of 121 players and their scores in 17 categories. The player with the highest overall score is Dragon expert with 8305 points. The Assassin has the second highest overall score of 5700 points. Kevin Garrett has the third highest overall score of 5230 points.
Zumba In Pink is a Zumba dance class fundraiser being held on October 22nd from 6pm to 7pm in the Mac gym to raise money for the local shadows foundation through $10 donations.
Marketing Concepts revealed. Here the different marketing concepts are explained for the end user to understand, comprehend and easily apply wherever appropriate.
The document summarizes the three types of muscles in the body - skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle. Skeletal muscle is voluntary and found in the limbs, cardiac muscle is involuntary and only located in the heart, and smooth muscle is involuntary and found in organs like the intestines. Each muscle type has distinct characteristics like fiber structure, nuclei number, and striation pattern. The document also discusses muscle contraction, types of responses, energy sources, and examples of major skeletal muscles and their functions.
The document discusses the SME 2.0 project, which aims to develop an e-learning platform and courses to help European SMEs utilize web 2.0 technologies and social networking in business management. The project involves partners from Hungary, Italy, Ireland and the UK. It will adapt materials from prior projects and develop online courses in four topics: project management, information and knowledge management, human resource management, and online marketing. The courses will be piloted starting in autumn 2012.
Advance Android application development workshop day 2cresco
10 Days Android Workshop at L J Institute of engineering and technology delivered by Cresco Solution visit: http://www.crescosolution.com/android-workshop-at-l-j-institute-of-engineering-and-technology-ahmedabad/
"Mental Qualities, Valence, and Intuition: Comments on Machery", PowerPoint presentation at the March 2011 workshop of the Metro Experimental Research Group (M.E.R.G.) at NYU.
This document discusses several secular approaches that can lead to a nondual state, including flow, psychological presence, hot cognition, engagement, and improvisation. Flow involves being fully immersed in an activity using intuition rather than rational thinking. Psychological presence means being fully attentive, connected, integrated, and focused on a task. Hot cognition is more intuitive and unconscious compared to rational cold cognition. Engagement involves passion and absorption in one's work. Improvisation taps unconscious repertoires and relies on intuition, expertise, and being in the moment. These secular concepts are presented as ways to access a nondual state through activities that reduce self-consciousness and rational thinking.
The document discusses the metaphor of organizations as "psychic prisons" and how it can help explain unconscious dynamics in organizations. It describes how organizations can act as prisons that trap people through unconscious myths, stories and defense mechanisms that help control fear and anxiety. Several specific "psychic prisons" are outlined, including those relating to repressed sexuality, patriarchal families, death and immortality, anxiety, and an aversion to change. The metaphor's strengths are that it helps explore hidden meanings and patterns of control in organizations, while its weaknesses are that it can overlook the very real constraints of actual prisons.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the human mind and its connection to higher consciousness. It discusses the mind as having three planes: the conscious mind, subconscious mind, and superconscious or God-mind. The key points are:
1) The subconscious mind acts as an intermediary between the conscious mind and higher self, but often functions as a barrier due to faulty programming from the ego.
2) Breaking through the subconscious barrier is necessary to connect to the higher God-self, but this is challenging as the subconscious mind is 30,000 times more powerful and dominated by limiting beliefs.
3) Taking control of one's thoughts and focusing on positive thinking can help minimize the
Experiential integral ed book group slides 1perspegrity5
This document discusses concepts related to learning, education, spirituality, and integral theory. It presents models of human development, including Spiral Dynamics levels ranging from instinctive to integral. It discusses the progression from ego-centric to world-centric perspectives, pre-conventional to post-conventional thinking, and black-and-white to more nuanced understandings. It also covers wisdom skills, perspective-taking, justification of beliefs, and applying AQAL theory to education.
This document discusses Clifford Geertz's concept of "psychic webs" and how organizations can act as psychic prisons that trap individuals. It explores various ways organizations relate to unconscious forces like patriarchal families, death, anxiety, and archetypes. Various theorists are mentioned like Freud, Foucault, and Taylor and how they view control and the unconscious in organizations. The strengths and limitations of viewing organizations as psychic prisons are discussed as well as how understanding this concept can provide insights but also risks ignoring other real factors in leading organizations.
Psychic prison. Images of OrganizationMona Elashry
1. The document discusses the "psychic prison metaphor" which refers to how people can become trapped by their own ways of thinking and constructions of reality within organizations.
2. It provides examples of how favored ways of thinking and groupthink can trap organizations, preventing them from adapting to change. IBM's focus on hardware prevented it from seeing the potential of software and PCs.
3. Unconscious processes and the desire for repression and conformity play a role in shaping organizational realities and cultures, according to Freudian concepts discussed in the text. Conscious rationales may develop from deeper unconscious preoccupations.
The document discusses the psychic prison metaphor, which depicts how people can become trapped in limited ways of thinking and perceiving reality. It originated with philosopher Plato's allegory of the cave, where prisoners saw only shadows on the cave wall. The metaphor is now used in organizational behavior, with examples like groupthink leading to poor decision making. Understanding organizations through concepts like unconscious desires, family dynamics, and symbols can provide insights, though it also has limitations like neglecting conscious ideological factors.
Consciousness management the missing dimension of modern managementSandeep Gupta
Premise:
1. Confining management to the business world is a highly microscopic view.
2. Management is intrinsic to humans. It starts with birth and ends with death
3. Management is a process; therefore it produces only results, not good results or bad results.
4. It is the quality of one’s consciousness (ability to see, think & act) which makes the results good or bad.
5. Human consciousness is trainable and the entire Indian wisdom of individual and society growth revolves around it.
6. Consciousness training enables humans to transcend from ‘I-Me-My’ way of life to the ‘We-Our-Us’ way of life and bring about a change in self, society and the physical world.
7. For those who have been hard-wired by the 20th century scientism and do not accept anything without empirical data, the last 2 slides demonstrate how operating from a higher level of consciousness leads to higher success and productivity even in areas such as business.
Accurate Group of Companies is an ISO 9001:2008 certified group of companies established in 1993 with the aim of providing electrical control panels and systems. The group has achieved over INR 40 Cr in annual sales and plans to reach INR 100 Cr by 2012. It has a fully equipped manufacturing facility spread over 36,000 square feet that includes sheet metal fabrication, welding, and electrical and mechanical testing equipment. The group has completed several prestigious projects including supplying over 4,000 AMF panels to Reliance Infocom and exporting to South African countries.
Wy 1932-senate-hearing-on-granting-remaining-unreserved-public-lands-to-state...American Lands Council
The document summarizes hearings held by the Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys regarding bills proposing to grant vacant unreserved public lands to accepting states. It includes statements from government officials, representatives of industry groups, and others discussing the potential impacts and benefits of transferring public lands from federal to state control, with a focus on subsurface mineral rights. Key points of debate included whether states were capable of responsibly administering large land grants and mineral revenues, and ensuring use for the benefit of their citizens.
Mass. Dept. of Public Utilities Ruling to Allow Berkshire Gas to Purchase Nat...Marcellus Drilling News
A ruling from the Massachusetts State Dept. of Public Utilities that approves Berkshire Gas' contract with Kinder Morgan to purchase new supplies of natural gas from the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline--if the pipeline ever gets built.
Tutorial para transformar objetos en photoshop / Transform Objects in Photoshopdesignpaolalozano
A Short, easy and effective Photoshop Tutorial about transforming objects. Un tutorial, fácil y simple para transformar objetos en Photoshop fácilmente.
The document lists various factors to consider when selecting a wedding reception venue, including whether the ceremony and reception will be at the same venue, the number of guests, the venue's capacity, if it will be a seated or standing reception, venue themes, checking the venue contract, fees like corkage, accommodating guests' accessibility needs, staff flexibility, transportation and parking, restrictions, lighting for photography, decor package options, and ability to borrow extras. The final section indicates the document discusses important factors to evaluate when choosing a wedding reception venue.
The document contains a table listing the names of 121 players and their scores in 17 categories. The player with the highest overall score is Dragon expert with 8305 points. The Assassin has the second highest overall score of 5700 points. Kevin Garrett has the third highest overall score of 5230 points.
Zumba In Pink is a Zumba dance class fundraiser being held on October 22nd from 6pm to 7pm in the Mac gym to raise money for the local shadows foundation through $10 donations.
Marketing Concepts revealed. Here the different marketing concepts are explained for the end user to understand, comprehend and easily apply wherever appropriate.
The document summarizes the three types of muscles in the body - skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle. Skeletal muscle is voluntary and found in the limbs, cardiac muscle is involuntary and only located in the heart, and smooth muscle is involuntary and found in organs like the intestines. Each muscle type has distinct characteristics like fiber structure, nuclei number, and striation pattern. The document also discusses muscle contraction, types of responses, energy sources, and examples of major skeletal muscles and their functions.
The document discusses the SME 2.0 project, which aims to develop an e-learning platform and courses to help European SMEs utilize web 2.0 technologies and social networking in business management. The project involves partners from Hungary, Italy, Ireland and the UK. It will adapt materials from prior projects and develop online courses in four topics: project management, information and knowledge management, human resource management, and online marketing. The courses will be piloted starting in autumn 2012.
Advance Android application development workshop day 2cresco
10 Days Android Workshop at L J Institute of engineering and technology delivered by Cresco Solution visit: http://www.crescosolution.com/android-workshop-at-l-j-institute-of-engineering-and-technology-ahmedabad/
Eminem stars as Jimmy, a struggling blue collar worker living with his mother and her abusive boyfriend in a trailer home near 8 Mile Road in Detroit. Jimmy struggles with different aspects of his life and finds an outlet through rap battles in the local scene. The film was directed by Curtis Hanson and also stars Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, and Mekhi Phifer. It was produced by Brian Grazer, Jimmy Iovine, and based on Eminem's own experiences growing up in Detroit.
Understanding the Probate Process in MissouriCharlie Amen
Probate is the legal process often required following the death of an individual. Learn more about the probate process in Missouri in this presentation.
XYZ company wants solutions for dealership sales personnel to effectively sell a new car range and minimize reducing sales of other models. The budget for the solutions is INR 50 lakh. The document then provides background information on the Indian passenger car market and segmentation. It discusses the complex consumer decision making process and the salesperson's important role in customer education. Potential tools are proposed to help salespeople including a product handbook, mobile app for training and market intelligence, and a customer questionnaire.
This document discusses public perceptions of biomass energy and lessons learned from biomass energy facility development cases. It finds that while the public generally supports renewable energy, opposition emerges when specific projects are proposed. Developers often dismiss initial opposition as NIMBYism but must engage communities through open communication and address concerns about impacts, siting, and benefits. The document analyzes specific cases where developers failed to adequately communicate and work with local communities, which led projects to be rejected. It provides recommendations for developers to involve communities, consider local impacts and benefits, and establish trust to gain public support for biomass energy facilities.
This document discusses a workshop being held to help organizations better understand how to advance racial equity and address systemic racism. It acknowledges that the workshop is being held on indigenous lands. It commits to centering indigenous voices and supporting indigenous-led organizations. The goal is to help organizations develop an understanding of institutional racism and how to address issues of race, trauma, and oppression. The document outlines some of the training topics that will be covered, including implicit bias, adverse childhood experiences, microaggressions, cultural competency, and becoming trauma-informed. It emphasizes the importance of managing self-care when discussing difficult topics.
The document discusses several key concepts related to humanities and cultural formation, including ideological formation, cultural norms, and the relationship between individual and cultural perceptions of appropriate behavior. It also addresses how socialization agencies can influence one's beliefs and perceptions of morality, self, and intelligence through reinforcing cultural norms and symbols. Finally, it questions whether education is adequately preparing students for a globalized 21st century world with changing job expectations and cultural diversity.
The document discusses how perceptions differ between individuals due to subjective experiences and the selective and creative nature of perception. It explains that culture, gender roles, and co-cultures all influence perceptions. Perceptions are shaped by one's unique experiences and background as well as social and cultural influences.
The document discusses how to have constructive conversations about race. It argues that not discussing race ignores how race impacts society. It suggests using "targeted universalism" to address racial disparities while recognizing our shared fate. The document provides strategies for transformative discourse, such as focusing on solutions, narratives, and fixing systemic flaws instead of assigning blame.
The document discusses how humanities disciplines like philosophy, religion, history, literature and the arts impact people's perceptions of who they are, why they exist, and how they should act. It examines how culture and socialization shape individuals' norms, beliefs and sense of appropriate behavior through symbolic systems and the internalization of dominant cultural values. The document questions whether formal institutions like education, religion and therapy play a role in socially constructing people's worldviews, morality and sense of self.
The document discusses how humanities disciplines like philosophy, religion, history, literature and the arts impact people's perceptions of who they are, why they exist, and how they should act. It examines how culture and socialization shape individuals' norms, beliefs and sense of appropriate behavior through the internalization and reinforcement of symbolic systems. The document questions whether social institutions like education, religion and therapy help form people's worldviews and sense of self.
A lecture given at the 1st international conference on humanistic and existential psychotherapy, Lima, Peru. I consider whether psychiatric diagnosis is consistent with an existential approach to psychotherapy, using the recent protests against the REMOVAL of the diagnosis Asperger's Syndrome from DSM 5 as an example
1) The document summarizes research on the nature and sources of prejudice. It defines prejudice as a preconceived negative judgment of a group and its members, supported by stereotypes.
2) Prejudice stems from social sources like social inequalities and socialization, motivational sources like feeling superior to outgroups, and cognitive sources like categorization and perception of distinctiveness.
3) The consequences of prejudice include self-perpetuating stereotypes through confirmation bias, and discrimination that can create self-fulfilling prophecies about the targeted groups.
This document discusses issues in cross-cultural communication and how culture impacts perception and communication. It outlines that culture governs both language/thought and behaviors/activities. Cultural differences present greater obstacles to communication than linguistic differences alone. Culture shapes perceptions in areas like individualism vs collectivism, roles, social hierarchies, values, and thought patterns. These cultural lenses can lead to misunderstandings between people from different cultures unless accounted for in cross-cultural interactions and communication. The document provides taxonomy of potential cultural barriers and differences that can obstruct cross-cultural understanding.
1. The document discusses building a multiracial movement through transformation, not just transactions, by recognizing our interconnectedness and linked fate across racial groups.
2. It emphasizes the need to have honest discussions about race, understand how implicit biases and framing shape perceptions, and work towards arrangements where all groups benefit through targeted universalism.
3. True transformation requires changing individual mindsets and rearranging institutions to be more equitable and mutually supportive of diversity, rather than just negotiating the current unequal systems.
The document provides an overview of the key topics covered in a psychology lecture, including:
- Early psychologists like Wundt who studied consciousness using introspection.
- William James who believed thinking and other mental processes help humans survive.
- Memory studies by Ebbinghaus and Calkins showing forgetting occurs rapidly at first.
- Cognitive psychology focusing on thinking, perceiving, and other intellectual processes.
- Behaviorism studying how learning from experience shapes behavior.
- Freud believing unconscious motives like sex and aggression influence behavior.
- Neuroscience examining the brain structures underlying psychological processes.
- The sociocultural perspective considering how gender, culture and experiences shape people.
The document discusses structural racialization, implicit bias, and systems thinking in relation to race. It notes that implicit bias resides in our unconscious networks and influences our perceptions in ways we are often unaware of. Tests have shown widespread implicit bias against non-whites. The document advocates considering how people are situated within relationships and processes, and recognizing that racialized outcomes do not require racist actors.
The document discusses the need to change how we talk about, think about, and act on issues of race. It notes that implicit or unconscious biases related to race are difficult to address when discussing race openly. The author advocates reframing discussions around shared values like unity, fairness and opportunity to create an empathetic space. He also argues that transformative change requires understanding how language shapes perceptions of race and how framing impacts racial thinking on both explicit and implicit levels. By linking individual fates instead of separating them along racial lines, progress can be made.
Ross faces a dilemma in choosing between Rachel and Julie and makes a list of things he likes and dislikes about each to help understand his feelings. However, research shows introspecting about reasons can change attitudes in misleading ways as people latch onto easy reasons rather than accurate ones. Similarly, people may infer emotions and attitudes from their behavior rather than introspecting accurately. Overall, understanding the self is difficult as people rely less on introspection than assumed and unconscious factors influence feelings and behavior in hidden ways.
Ross faces a dilemma in choosing between Rachel and Julie. He makes a list of things he likes and dislikes about each woman to help understand his feelings. However, research shows introspecting about reasons can change attitudes in misleading ways. When feelings are uncertain, people infer attitudes from their behavior and situation rather than introspection alone.
Chapter 1 introducing social psychologyFaizaKhalid50
This document provides an overview of key concepts in social psychology:
- Social psychology attempts to understand how individuals are influenced by others and examines social thinking, influence, and relations.
- Major themes include that we construct our social reality, social intuitions can be powerful but sometimes perilous, and social influences shape our behavior.
- Social behavior has biological roots in evolution and social neuroscience, and social psychology principles apply to everyday life.
Critical Race Theory: “[I]ntellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour.” (Britannica)
This document is a chapter from a PowerPoint presentation on prejudice that outlines its causes. The chapter discusses how prejudice is an ubiquitous social phenomenon that affects everyone. It examines how our thinking processes like categorization, schemas, and attribution biases can lead to prejudice through mechanisms like illusory correlations, fundamental attribution error, and self-fulfilling prophecies. Economic competition over limited resources as predicted by realistic conflict theory and conformity to social norms are also discussed as causes of prejudice.
This document is a chapter from a PowerPoint presentation on prejudice that outlines its causes. The chapter discusses how prejudice is an ubiquitous social phenomenon that affects everyone. It examines how our thinking processes like categorization and schemas can lead to prejudice through in-group bias and out-group homogeneity. Attributional biases like the fundamental attribution error and self-fulfilling prophecies also contribute to prejudice. Prejudice can arise from economic competition over limited resources. Conforming to social and cultural norms that promote stereotypes through institutionalized racism and sexism also causes prejudice.
This document provides information about autism and working with autistic clients. It begins with a quote about being different and unique. It then defines autism as a spectrum of brain development characterized by differences in social interaction, communication, and repetitive behaviors. It discusses common misconceptions about autism and defines Asperger's syndrome. The document then compares clinical and non-clinical viewpoints on autism. It discusses the importance of the therapeutic relationship when working with autistic clients and potential therapy approaches. Finally, it highlights considerations for therapists and issues clients may face.
The Kirwan Institute’s past year was marked by wide-ranging accomplishments which touched all three U.S. coastlines and many areas in between, with significant impact right here at The Ohio State University.
This document summarizes a presentation on broadband availability and its relationship to race, income, and location. It explores these relationships through case studies of Los Angeles, Chicago, and South Carolina. The main findings are that income was a more significant determinant of broadband deployment than race alone, availability varies between urban and rural areas, and adoption remains an issue even with some level of competition and availability. Going forward, the researchers intend to further examine availability versus adoption, the role of cost and service type, and speed. Data and technical challenges for the analysis are also discussed.
This document discusses the role of federal policy in promoting or limiting opportunities for low-income people and people of color in America. It provides historical examples of how policies around schooling, housing, transportation and lending influenced racial inequities that persist today. It also examines unemployment insurance and finds that while Black and Latino Americans face higher unemployment rates, they are underrepresented among recipients of unemployment benefits compared to their share of the unemployed population. Geographic distribution of minority groups in states with less generous unemployment systems as well as ineligibility factors may partially explain these disparities.
The document summarizes a talk given by John Powell on structural racialization. Powell discusses how, despite the election of Barack Obama, racial inequalities persist in areas like education and the criminal justice system. He argues that prematurely declaring a post-racial status ignores the continued barriers that marginalized groups face. Powell also examines how implicit biases, institutional arrangements, and public policies have collectively contributed to ongoing racial disparities, even without explicitly racist actors.
This document provides recommendations for updating Ohio's 1980 diversity policy. It recommends reaffirming commitment to diversity and reducing racial isolation. It also recommends supporting voluntary diversity policies, conducting diversity assessments of new schools/closures, diversifying staff, expanding diversity training, limiting zero tolerance policies, expanding successful magnet programs, monitoring referral rates and representation in advanced courses, and promoting comprehensive counseling programs. The goal is to foster inclusive, equitable and diverse learning environments.
The document discusses using a targeted universalism approach to promote racial equity by changing the geography of opportunity. It provides examples of how targeted universal policies in Portland and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program invested in communities hardest hit by crises while also providing access to higher opportunity areas. The document advocates for a multi-faceted approach including opportunity mapping to coordinate regional investments in people, places, and connections to expand access to high opportunity communities.
This document summarizes the history of school desegregation efforts in the United States following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It discusses the phases of desegregation including massive resistance in the South, courts enforcing desegregation through rulings like Green v. County School Board and Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg, desegregation moving to northern states through cases like Keyes v. School District No. 1 and Penick v. Columbus Board of Education, and the limiting of desegregation through rulings like Milliken v. Bradley. It also examines trends of resegregation and the impacts of segregation on opportunities and outcomes.
This document discusses potential reasons for the underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos among unemployment insurance (UI) beneficiaries. It finds that:
1) African Americans and Latinos experienced higher unemployment during the recession but were also overrepresented among the long-term unemployed.
2) While recipiency rates were around 40% for whites, they were lower for African Americans and Latinos, ranging from 32-39%.
3) Geographic distribution of racial groups may play a role, as African Americans and Latinos are more concentrated in states with lower UI recipiency rates. Implicit bias and discretion in the UI system could also potentially contribute to underrepresentation of minorities.
This document summarizes a seminar on access to higher education presented by Jason Reece at Ohio State University. The seminar discussed unequal access to higher education in Ohio as a form of inequity and examined what drives disparate educational outcomes in the state and what can be done to improve access. Reece, a senior researcher at the Kirwan Institute, explored how systemic barriers to higher education represent inequity in Ohio and how providing greater access promotes greater equity.
This document discusses facing issues of race and humanity. It notes that while we may unconsciously think about and hold biases related to race even with sincerely egalitarian attitudes, avoiding discussions of race does not make bias go away. Having open conversations about race, though difficult, is important. It concludes by providing information about the Kirwan Institute and its work related to issues of race.
Jason Reece gave a lecture on using GIS and mapping for advocacy and promoting equity. He discussed how maps can effectively display spatial inequities related to race, class, and other social factors. He provided examples of opportunity mapping projects conducted by the Kirwan Institute to analyze access to education, jobs, housing and other opportunities. Reece explained how these maps have informed programs and policies to improve opportunities for disadvantaged communities.
This document discusses using mapping and spatial analysis to advance advocacy and social justice. It provides examples of how opportunity mapping has been used in litigation, research, and policymaking to illustrate disparities, propose solutions, and measure impact. Opportunity mapping combines quantitative data analysis with narrative to identify gaps in access to critical resources and structures. The approach has informed fair housing legal cases, program evaluation, and efforts to direct investment to disadvantaged communities.
Community engagement builds social capital by cultivating long-term relationships and developing a shared community vision. However, community engagement has declined as private life replaces public life and diversity decreases social capital. Disadvantaged communities face additional challenges to engagement like decades of disinvestment, poverty, and underperforming schools. To rebuild engagement requires long-term efforts that empower local leadership, allow diverse voices to be heard, and foster trust through shared responsibility between community groups.
This document discusses critical race theory and the intersection of race and class. It makes three key points:
1) Race and class are co-constitutive and intersect at individual, group, and societal levels, shaping identity and inequality over time. The exclusion of non-whites from New Deal programs entrenched structural racial inequality.
2) Opportunity structures in domains like housing, employment, education sort individuals and groups in racialized ways. A shift is needed to examine how institutions collectively racialize opportunities.
3) Corporate power increasingly shapes key areas of life and diminishes public and private spaces, with implications for civil rights that are debated in issues like Citizens United.
The document discusses structural barriers to opportunity and how they disproportionately impact marginalized communities. It provides an overview of the Kirwan Institute's work studying how systems produce racial inequities and analyzing neighborhoods' access to opportunities like education and employment. It then examines how policies historically enforced inequity and how racial segregation persists spatially and in schools. The document concludes by analyzing disparate impacts of the recent recession, like higher unemployment rates for Black and Latino communities in Ohio.
I apologize, upon further reflection my previous statement about "conscious or unconscious" was an oversimplification. Implicit biases are complex and exist within social, historical, and institutional contexts that shape our perceptions and behaviors in ways that are not always conscious or intentional. A more nuanced understanding is needed.
The document discusses the disproportionate impacts of the recession on minorities and calls for a more equitable recovery. It summarizes data showing higher unemployment rates among minorities, in areas with larger minority populations, and at the intersections of geography and race. While the stimulus provided relief, more targeted investments are needed to assist communities hardest hit and develop opportunities for minorities. The Kirwan Institute advocates for policies that combine universal goals with targeted approaches to promote a fair recovery.
This document discusses the impacts of the recession and economic crisis. It notes that the recession has hit communities unevenly across states and demographics. Certain groups, such as Black and Latino youth, have faced particularly high unemployment rates. The response to the recession through policies like the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act aimed to stimulate the economy and assist those most impacted, but there are questions around whether the recovery has reached all communities equally and how future policies and investments can better promote equity.
John A. Powell discussed structural racialization and opportunity in Seattle. He explained that structural racialization involves mutually reinforcing policies and institutions that restrict opportunity and perpetuate racial disparities, often through spatial segregation. Considering how institutions interact as systems is important to understand opportunity and racialized outcomes. Analyzing specific regions requires thinking about structures and social relationships that mediate access to resources like housing, employment, education and transportation.
Jason Reece from the Kirwan Institute presented on using mapping to advocate for equity issues, explaining how maps can effectively display spatial inequities and discussing opportunity mapping projects in various states and regions to analyze access to education, jobs, housing and other opportunity indicators. The presentation covered case studies of how opportunity mapping has informed legal services, housing programs, and other advocacy efforts to address racial and social inequities.
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Self (Green Gulch)
1. Race, Structures and the
Self
john powell
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Ohio State University
1
2. INTRODUCTION
Overview and Welcome
Implicit Bias and Race
Towards a structural understanding of race and racial disparities
Towards a larger understanding of the “self” and the “racial self”
Questions, comments, discussion
3. The well-informed bodhisattva...strives to respond to the
three great moral imperatives of our time - to heal the
violated planet, and to enable both the underclass at
home...and the wretched of the earth to win dignity and
freedom. To the traditional Buddhist task of calming the
mind is added that of employing it to transform and
dismantle social systems and processes which supercharge the
suffering of humanity as well as encompassing the ruin of the
planet and its creatures...As Mahatma Gandhi observed, the
belief (whether of Lenin or Adam Smith) that we can devise a
social system so perfect that no one will need to be good, is
one of the great delusions of our time. But without the outer
work the inner work cannot be socially manifested on the
scale that is now required.
KEN JONES - THE ZEN OF SOCIAL ACTION -
http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/zen-social-action.html
4. “We are all caught up in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever effects one
directly effects all indirectly.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Our fates are linked, yet our fates have been
socially constructed as disconnected,
especially through the categories of class,
race, gender, nationality, religion…
5. Race, Buddhism and the Self
Individuals as autonomous-independent selves
Egoistic, possessive, separate, isolated, rational
Role of state: protect individualism and private
property
This is reflected in beliefs about Judeo-Christian God
Protects against evil, punishes wrongdoers, promotes
individual-success through own will
Within this view, government social programs seen as
counter-productive and reinforcing negative behaviors
6. Race, Buddhism and the Self
Where is “self” in Buddhist practice?
Who are you practicing for?
Where is “love” and “religion” in our politics?
Does a separation between church and state really mean
a separation between political sphere and spiritual
sphere
Is LIBERATION a spiritual or political concern?
7. Race, Buddhism and the Self
Identities can be multiple and conflicted
– The British did not become “white” until Africans became
“black”
Both internal and external pluralism is supported by a healthy
society
We may experience an uncomfortable awareness of our own
multiplicity
– W.E.B. DuBois’ double consciousness
– Experiences in meditation of fluidness of self – can sometimes
be freeing, can sometimes be scary/unpleasant
8. Race, Buddhism and the Self
WHERE IS
RACE? RACIAL
RACE IS THE MEANING
EMERGENT
PROPERTY
OF ALL THESE
INTERACTION
S
RACIAL RACIAL
DISPARITIES ATTITUDES
10. Implicit Bias
Consciousness is not consistent or unified internally,
only externally
Many stories about race percolating below surface
Ones that rise to the top depend on which schemas get
activated – schemas not only activated through words,
priming, but also context
How you feel about me standing in front of room,
maybe very different if we were alone on street at night
11. Underneath awareness
“Day 44: still stranded, with nothing
but flat empty water as far as the eye can see”
Source:www.xkcd.com
16. PRIMING
What frameworks are being called to conscious
thought?
Click picture to play movie
17. Implicit Association
How we behave often hinges on factors of
which we are unaware
People’s minds operate through schemas
“Schemas are simply templates of knowledge that
help us organize specific examples into broad
categories.”
The schemas we use to categorize people are
called stereotypes [not nec. prejudice]
Source:
18. Implicit Association and Bias
“Both history and societal factors play a crucial
role in providing the content of schemas,
which are programmed through culture, media,
and the material context.”
Implicit bias lives within our schemas
Bias doesn’t make you prejudiced; it makes
you a person
Source:
21. When scientists showed a similar sketch to people from East Africa, on
her head. In a culture containing few angular visual cues, the family is
seen sitting under a tree. Westerners, on the other hand, are accustomed
to the corners and boxlike shapes of architecture. They are more likely to
place the family indoors and to interpret the rectangle above the woman's
head as a window through which shrubbery can be seen.
24. Implicit Bias/Neuroscience
Brain is far more malleable than previously thought
[plasticity]
Regular meditation practice can “rewire brain” –
specifically quiet down amygdala and move activity to
prefrontal cortex and also increase activity in the
insula – associated with empathy/compassion.
Also reduction of activity of parietal lobe which helps
orient self-as-separate during meditation – looser
identification with isolated individual self
24
26. Implicit Bias/Neuroscience
“A person who meditates consequently perceives objects
more as directly experienced stimuli and less as concepts…
With the removal or minimization of cognitive stimuli and
generally increasing awareness, meditation can therefore
influence both the quality (accuracy) and quantity
(detection) of perception.”
TLOCKZYNSKI -"Perception of Visual Illusions
by Novice and Longer-Term Meditators”
Many areas affected by meditation also places where
“judgement” occurs – precisely the places that different
racial schemas can activate
Meditation as way to become aware of schemas getting
called into being
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27. Implicit Bias and Meditation
Meditation may EXPAND awareness of multiple awarenesses of
race happening in any situation
Some studies have shown reduction in implicit bias scores among
meditators, and some show no changes
Possible that experienced meditators are more able to change
implicit bias test scores than non-meditators
(more flexible)
Possible that experienced meditators have less of a link
between implicit bias and external prejudice/actions
(more able to not be in a reactive mode)
Possible that relaxation response increases ability to
empathize and not be processing information in “fear mode”
All currently suggested hypotheses but clear that
meditation on its own isn’t very good for reducing implicit
bias
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28. Implicit Bias and Meditation
Some optical illusions are independent of awareness,
however some can be altered. Below is an optical
illusion than some experienced meditators see
differently than non-experienced meditators.
Difference is in millimeters, so no bragging
line appears actually continues
to continue to red
to blue
29. Other ways to counter implicit bias
Conscious messaging/conscious language
Differences in affirmative action support- “assistance” vs
“preference”
Talking about race/instead of not talking
Purposeful empathizing
Some experiments even as little as having to imagine what
someone’s favorite food or favorite color was
De-biasing – presenter counter-images
Work to disrupt categories – racial disparities not separate from
racial meaning
31. TOWARDS A STRUCTURAL VIEW OF RACE / RACIAL
DISPARITIES
• racial attitudes getting better, but disparities continue to persist
-- how do we explain the persistence of disparities in a post-
Civil Rights U.S.?
• move from de jure segregation to de facto segregation
• move from explicit racist laws/attitudes to seemingly neutral
structures that reproduce disparities
• shifting the focus from attitudes to manifestation - stop
focusing on racial intent as determining factor in talking about
existence of “racism”
32. Traditional Understanding {-} Structural Understanding {+}
An independent-isolated-individual An outcome that results from interactivity of
psychological issue institutions & actors
De jure De facto
Static Dynamic
Past, if present an anomaly Present
Overt Overt and covert
Irrational Rational
Tautological Non-tautological (multidimensional)
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Racism Without Racists (1997)
33. DISPARITIES: SNAPSHOTS
African-American men were 1.8x more likely than white men to be unemployed in 1980,
by 2000 that had risen to 2.4x more likely – 2007 estimates indicate this has increased
even further. If incarcerated populations are included in the jobless count, African-
American men are now over 3x more likely than white men to be unemployed, a larger
disparity than even the 1950s.
The Black-White disparity in incarceration was close to 3-1 in 1930. Today it is higher
than 8-1, and still increasing exponentially. Incarceration for drug-related offenses
peaked at a 20-1 disparity in the mid 90s and is currently holding steady at 15-1.
(In 2007, nearly 7% of African-American children had one or both parents currently in
prison, a higher percentage than ever before in history)
The likelihood of a poor African-American child
living in concentrated poverty compared to her
white counterpart was about 3x in the 1960s, it is
now 7.2
34. DISPARITIES: SNAPSHOTS
The typical Black family had 60% as much income as a white family in 1968,
but only 58% as much in 2002.
Black infants are almost two-and-a-half-times as likely as white infants to die
before age one – a greater gap than in 1970.
At the slow rate that the Black-white under poverty gap has been narrowing
since 1968, it would take until 2152, to close.
For every white dollar earned, African Americans earned 55 cents in 1968 –
and only 57 cents in 2001. At this pace, it would take Blacks 581 years to get
the remaining 43 cents.
While white homeownership has jumped from 65% to 75% since 1970, Black
homeownership has only risen from 42% to 48%. At this rate, it would take
1,664 years to close the homeownership gap – about 55 generations.
35.
36. THE RACIAL LANDSCAPE HAS CHANGED DRASTICALLY
FROM 1947-2006, YET INCOME DISPARITIES ARE
ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED
37. How do we explain disparities?
Minimize the existence of disparities
“Things may not be entirely equal, but it’s not nearly as bad as
it used to be.”
“The racial ‘playing field’ is level.”
38. How do we explain disparities?
Blame culture for racial inequality rather than societal structures or
white privilege (attribution bias)
“Blacks are lazy and lack motivation.”
“We get what we deserve in life. If some racial groups
aren’t doing as well as others, people just need to work harder.”
39. How do we explain disparities?
Racial phenomena are “natural”
“Racial segregation in housing is natural. After all, they prefer
to live by themselves instead of interacting with us.”
“They’d rather be with their ‘own kind’ anyway.”
“People have classified others into groups since the beginning of
time, we all stereotype”
40. How do we explain disparities?
Focusing on individuals and their traits, assuming that we all start
from the same “position” in society
“We should all be judged as individuals based on our
personal merits. No one should receive special privileges.
It’s not fair.”
“People like Tiger Woods, George Lopez, and Oprah
Winfrey are proof that anyone can be successful in America.”
“Affirmative Action actually hurts minorities because it keeps
us thinking about race instead of just seeing humans”
42. MOVING BEYOND INTENT
• post - Katrina --> finding blame --> Does Bush care about
black people? Is FEMA racist? Isn’t Mayor Nagin black?
• post-Obama -> Does election of black Pres mean racism is
ending? Is this a post-racial world?
• Is the Tea Party about “race” or about “policy”?
• MOVING BEYOND DICHOTOMY
• Race either “exists” or not
• Is “important” or is not
• Racism is “getting better” or “getting worse”
43. Systems Thinking
Think of guitar feedback – a single note can be heard –
can even be getting louder – long after the initial pluck
has ended
Because of STRUCTURES, racialized impacts can be
occurring long after racist input has ended
EXAMPLE: FHA LOANS, MORTGAGES, WEALTH BUILDING
44. FHA Loans – Racialized Input
Post WWII FHA Loans - mostly available for whites
only and new suburbs being built had racial covenants
- (less than 1% of African-American Households able
to receive mortgages from 1930-1960)
By 1984, When GI Bill mortgages had mostly matured
White net worth = $39,135
AA net worth = $3,397
By 2002 Avg white wealth = $88,000 and
Avg AA wealth = $8,000
WEALTH DISPARITIES GROW EXPONENTIALLY
IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY
WITHOUT STRONG PROGRESSIVE TAXATION
45. Systems Thinking
Think in LOOPS not just CAUSE/EFFECT–
disparities in one area cause disparities in multiple
other areas which may reinforce the original disparity
School
Lower
Segregation &
Educational
Concentrated
Outcomes
Poverty
GAINS IN ONE AREA ARE OFTEN REINFORCING
UNDONE OVER TIME
BECAUSE OF STRUCTURES Increased
Neighborhood Flight
NOT INTENT Segregation of Affluent
Families
46. Systems Thinking
Think of “web of causes” that all effect one another
and themselves – individual intent a part of web, but is
as much a result of policies with racialized outcomes as
a cause of them
Nothing simply “cause” or “effect”
Structures produce outcomes, individuals inhabit those
structures
48. IS THIS THE RESULT OF INDIVIDUAL
EFFORT?
IN 2007 TOP 1% MAKES 70
TIMES MORE THAN
BOTTOM FIFTH,
COMPARED TO 22 TIMES
MORE IN 1979
CEO PAY INCREASES BY 300
PERCENT IN 15 YEARS
MINIMUM WAGE DROPS BY TEN
PERCENT
ARE CEOS 300 % MORE VALUABLE?
49. SPATIAL ASPECTS TO ALMOST ALL STRUCTURES
THAT CONNECT PEOPLE AND OPPORTUNITY
Black ghettos have come to contain a disproportionate
share of the nation's poor, creating an intensely
disadvantaged environment that only blacks face. The
key issue, in the end is not whether it is race or class
that explains the plight of African-Americans in the
late twentieth century but how race and class interact
to produce barriers to black socioeconomic progress
that are unique in their intensity, severity and
durability.
Douglas Massey The Nation
Urban sprawl is the new face of Jim Crow
john powell
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
50. Who Lives in Concentrated Poverty
Neighborhoods?
OVER 3.1 MILLION AFRICAN AMERICANS LIVED IN
CONCENTRATED POVERTY NEIGHBORHOODS IN 2000,
BLACKS AND LATINOS REPRESENT NEARLY 3 OUT OF 4
RESIDENTS IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS
NEARLY 1 OUT OF 10 BLACKS LIVED IN A CONCENTRATED
POVERTY NEIGHBORHOOD IN 1999, COMPARED TO 1 OUT OF
100 WHITES
51. What’s happening now?
Video of unemployment growth in the United States
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MOVIE
52. What’s happening now?
But unemployment is not equal…..
30.0
25.0
20.0
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10.0
5.0
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53. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AFFECT US ALL
US has one of the highest percentages of childhood poverty, infant
mortality, and incarceration in the world, despite its affluence as a
country. It has lower life expectancies than most industrialized
countries, and the least social mobility of any industrialized country.
The single largest predictor of wealth
in the United States is the wealth of your parents
The US is in the “top” countries for the average wealth of a national
elected representative compared to the average wealth of its citizens.
The US has one of the highest rates of income inequality and wealth
inequality (Gini Coefficient) in the industrialized world.
54. Wrapping it Up
Racial categories and meaning are continuously re-
created in multiple locations (individual, institutional,
structural, interactional)
Even “individual racism” is highly context-dependent –
depends on priming/framing, context, awareness, etc
Disparities are not dependent on “racism”
55. Wrapping it Up
What about suffering?
Ontological suffering – The pain of “being embodied” –
Dukkha - Noble truths
“Surplus suffering” – Ken Jones’ “supercharged
suffering” – created by socioeconomic structures
Suffering calls us to community – Suffering creates
empathy
DISSATISFACTION WITH ISOLATED SELF HAS
THE POWER TO DRAW US MORE DEEPLY INTO
RELATIONSHIP
57. Wrapping it Up
Political Structures are not subordinate to us as
individuals – nor are our values in a vaccum
“Secular” and “Religious”
are false distinctions
58. Wrapping it Up
So what does this mean for us? As activists? As
meditators? As Buddhists? As atheists? As white people?
As people of color?
Not just “what does our spiritual practice” have to offer
our activism, but what does our activism have to offer
our spiritual practice