As white people, we can’t begin to eradicate our internalized biases without knowing how to identify them. Let’s educate ourselves. And don’t forget that these are biases you need to call out when you see them in others as well.
Understanding Implicit Bias (article)
Stereotypes of African Americans (wikipedia): do the work to understand the links between old incredibly harmful stereotypes and modern white expectation that Black people be caretakers, for example.
Black people are not here to teach you: What so many white Americans just can’t grasp (article)
The White Internet’s Love Affair with Digital Blackface (video)
Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard (article)
I don’t care if you’re ‘fascinated’ by my afro, stop touching it (article)
Racial empathy gap: people don’t perceive pain in other races. (article)
Read about how scientific racism was used to institutionalize racism and justify slavery and white supremacy in the United States by claiming that enslaved people could withstand more pain.
Connect this to Black people today being denied the same medical treatment as whites: Some medical students still think black patients feel less pain than whites (article)
Let’s End The ‘Strong Black Woman’ Stereotype. Can’t We Be Vulnerable And Emotional Too? (article)
On calling Black people articulate/well-spoken/educated: The Racial Politics of Speaking Well (article)
The Dangerous Delusion of the Big, Scary, Black Man (article)
Consider why perceptions of Black people as dangerous/aggressive make white folks so reactive to Black anger: to perceive civility as incivility and to perceive anger as a violent threat.
Perceptions and stereotypes of Black men being bigger, stronger and scarier can also be fetishizing. Fetishizing people of color isn’t a compliment, so don’t act like it is (article)
Hyper-Sexualization of Black Women in the Media (pdf)
Is This How Discrimination Ends? (article)
I encourage anyone to add, with links or by writing out your own thoughts.
As white people, what should be guiding us is compassion: breaking down the way white supremacy has reduced our compassion for Black lives.
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