Implicit Bias, Prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping

What is a microaggression?

Everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.

Microinsults

Verbal or nonverbal subtle messages about a person’s identity that subtly convey rudeness and insensitivity (e.g., "You must play ball?")

Microinvalidation

Comments and behaviors, either verbal or nonverbal, that negate or dismiss the thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person or group (e.g., "Where are you from?")

Microassault

Damaging or discriminatory comments made to a person or group based on their group affiliation or personal identity (DIRECT VERBAL ATTACK, e.g., "I hate Jews")

What does LGBTQIA stand for?

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic

Implicit Bias

Unconscious thoughts, actions or judgments that are under the control of automatically activated evaluation, without the performer's awareness of that causation

Prejudice

Unconsciously judging others negatively based on stereotypes or bias

Discrimination (Action)

Person treated differently due to prejudice’s biases or stereotypes

Racism Defined

Prejudice or discrimination against individuals or groups based on beliefs about one’s own racial superiority or the belief that race reflects inherent differences in attributes and capabilities

Personal/Individual Racism

Involves the Individual

Institutional Racism

Institutional practices that perpetuate inequality

Cultural Racism

When an ethnic group or historical collective attempts to dominate, exclude or eliminate another group based on hereditary/immutable differences

Systemic Racism

Processes and outcomes of racial inequality inbuilt into society's structures

Colorism

Discrimination based on lightness/darkness of skin

Sexism

Judging people by gender when sex doesn't matter

Ageism

Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination based on age

Ableism

Discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities rooted in belief that typical abilities are superior

Xenophobia

Rejection, exclusion, and vilification of persons perceived as outsiders/foreigners

Heterosexism

Belief that heterosexuality is the ideal/default norm, denoting queer sexualities as inferior or abnormal

How to De-escalate Anger / Shift Response from Defensiveness to Accountability

• Be grateful for feedback.

• Focus on the problem.

• Actively listen.

• Show genuine remorse and commitment to improve.

• Take responsibility.

• Acknowledge the impact.

Who has the highest infant mortality?

Black women/mothers

Cultural Blindness

Ignoring cultural differences or acting as though they do not exist

Care for Disabled / Avoiding Disability Bias

Don't assume, speak directly, respect independence, and ask before helping

Federal Prohibits Overt Discrimination Based on Diverse Characteristics (You Need to Know!!)

Sex
Race

Color

Age

Religion

National Origin

Genetic Information

Disability

Stereotypes

Distorted images used to characterize a group

Personal Values

(Cognitive) Attitudes, ideals, and beliefs that guide behavior and decision making; rooted in culture

Intersectionality

The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect, especially in historically underrepresented individuals or groups

Anti-Racism

Thought and/or practice that seeks to confront, eradicate, and/or ameliorate racism; an active process demanding effort and action against racial inequality focusing on culture, ethnicity, religion, language, and gender with a goal of equal outcomes

Ethnocentrism

The belief that one’s way is best

Cultural Relativism

Acknowledging that other ways of doing things are different, but they are valid and may be superior