Readings

• Privilege, Oppression, and Difference (Johnson, 2006)
  From the book Privilege, Power, and Difference; Allan Johnson describes the paradox of privilege and argues the need to discuss it.
• White Privilege and Male Privilege (McIntosh, 2017)
  Chapter four of Privilege: A Reader discusses how a consideration of male privilege led to considering white privilege. Peggy McIntosh’s seminal work provides the commonly referenced explanation of an “invisible knapsack” of privileges that some are provided.
• Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role Do Faculty Play  (Killpack & Melón, 2016)
  Although this article focuses on STEM, the authors draw from the social sciences to offer a variety of strategies that we can use to acknowledge and mitigate implicit biases and stereotype threat.

 

Video

• Who, me? Biased? (Reshamwala, 2016)
  This New York Times video series offers several short videos that discuss implicit biases. We have provided links to two short videos below. ~3 minutes each
  • Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism
  • Check Our Bias to Wreck Our Bias

 

Online Modules

The Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study and Race and Ethnicity has developed a series of implicit bias modules. We recommend them for both faculty and students. We also recommend Harvard’s online tool for becoming aware of our own biases.

• Implicit Bias Module Series
• Project Implicit-Harvard