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Are We Born Racist? : New insights from neuroscience and positive psychology.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, 2010Description: 149 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807011577
  • 0807011576
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8001/9 22
LOC classification:
  • BF575.P9 .A74 2010
Other classification:
  • 77.61
Online resources:
Contents:
Summary: Investigates where prejudices originate, and attempts to answer why and how brains form prejudices, how they can hurt an individual's health, how to diminish them, and what a world without prejudice might look like.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab BF575 .P9 .A74 2010 1 Available 50583020020255
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references.

Are we born racist? / Susan T. Fiske -- Prejudice versus positive thinking / Kareem Johnson -- Framed! understanding achievement gaps / Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- When racism makes us sick / Eve Ekman and Jeremy Adam Smith -- The unhealthy racist / Elizabeth Page-Gould -- The egalitarian brain / David Amodio -- How to talk with kids about race / Allison Briscoe-Smith -- Promoting tolerance and equality in schools / Jennifer Holladay -- The perils of color blindness / Dottie Blais -- Overcoming prejudice in the workplace / Jennifer A. Chatman -- Policing bias / Alex Dixon -- "People understanding each other by talking" / Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- Success strategies for interracial couples / Anita Foeman and Terry Nance -- The bicultural advantage / Ross D. Parke, Scott Coltrane and Thomas Schofield -- "How can you do that to your children?" / Meredith Maran -- Me and my nose / Rona Fernandez -- Double blood / Rebeca Walker -- Truth + Reconciliation / Desmond Tutu.

Investigates where prejudices originate, and attempts to answer why and how brains form prejudices, how they can hurt an individual's health, how to diminish them, and what a world without prejudice might look like.

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