Techniques for revealing and circumventing unconscious bias; tools for eliminating or mitigating conscious bias.
Articles & Documents
Independent compositions published as part of a collection, such as a journals, newspapers, or websites. Documents other than articles or books (e.g., reports, text files, checklists, slides).
Augsburg University
Lists disability-related words that commonly are used as pejorative metaphors. Suggests alternate terms to convey the intended meaning without denigrating disabled people.
Challenging Implicit Bias in Schools
Shane Safir
Challenge implicit biases by identifying your own, teaching colleagues about them, observing gap-closing teachers, stopping “tone policing,” and tuning into such biases at your school.
Color of Wealth
McKinsey Quarterly
Includes charts comparing financial metrics for Black and White communities, historical origins of disparities, and suggestions for closing the wealth gap. Provides links to related articles (that might require registration or subscription to read).
Confronting and Combatting Bias in Schools
Education Week
Discusses challenges encountered and lessons learned by Angela Ward, Supervisor of Race and Equity Programs at the Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas.
Everything to Know About the Disability Pride Flag and Disability Pride Month
Jamie Ballard
Discusses the origin story and meaning of the Disability Pride flag.
How One Company Worked to Root Out Bias from Performance Reviews
Harvard Business Review
Authors found four patterns of bias in performance evaluations and recommended two changes: 1) break down job categories into competencies and require ratings be backed by at least three pieces of evidence; 2) develop a simple, one-hour workshop to introduce participants to the bias patterns and using the new form. By the intervention’s second year, evaluations were more similar across gender and race.
Overcoming Tribalism
Psychiatric Services
Short article highlights studies demonstrating prejudice is not hardwired in the brain; suggests approaches to help prevent or overcome prejudicial bias.
Unconscious Bias Training That Works
Harvard Business Review
Unconscious bias training often fails because the message that bias is involuntary and widespread may make it seem unavoidable. Effective training teaches attendees to manage their biases, practice new behaviors, and track their progress. Authors describe programs at Microsoft, Starbucks, and other organizations that help employees overcome denial and act on their awareness, develop the empathy that combats bias, diversify their networks, and commit to improvement.
Unconscious Bias Awareness Training is Hot, but the Outcome Is Not
Medium
A proliferation of ‘unconscious bias’ training in recent years has failed to result in widespread improvement of diversity or inclusive behaviors. To move an organization from awareness to real change, the authors suggest four tactics for better outcomes.
Books
Physical or electronic versions.
Anti-bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, 2nd Edition
“Louise Derman-Sparks, Julie Olsen Edwards, and Catherine M. Goins”
Guidance for educators to build a strong anti-bias program and stories about nurturing all children’s social identities and supporting children to stand up for themselves and others.
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Psychology professor and police department consultant Eberhardt provides real-world examples of how stereotypes and heuristics have influenced self-perceptions and sometimes-disastrous decisions. Includes techniques used to help uncover and manage such influences.
Ibram X. Kendi
Story of anti-Black racist ideas over the course of American history. Uses stories of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
Broadly defines racism as having a culturally-acquired worldview, and describes fragility as being unable to accept challenges to that view. Author recommends not engaging in racism conversation with Whites, and suggests nonthreatening approaches if one does. Book’s discussion of how socialization creates worldviews suggests a third alternative: increasing awareness of our own and others’ perspectives to reveal implicit beliefs and behaviors that foster unintended discrimination.
Websites
Sites comprising a collection of resources or links to resources.
Learning for Justice
Portal to articles about racism and xenophobia related to Covid-19.
alex Software Application
alex website
Describes and demonstrates how the open-source alex software can be used to identify and suggest alternatives for potentially insensitive or inequitable terms in oral or written language. Includes link to source code on GitHub.
Anti-Racism Resources for the AAPI Community
Asian American Studies Program
List of links to various resources regarding racism toward Asians and Asians’ racism toward others.
Downloadable Visual Cues of Inclusion
LGBTQ Connection
Provides downloadable visual cues of inclusion. By utilizing these visual cues, schools, businesses, and organizations can proudly display their support and commitment to creating safe and inclusive spaces for our LGBTQ+ community.
Global Report on Ageism
World Health Organization
Describes ageism as stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination directed towards people on the basis of age, with a focus on how it affects “older” and “younger” age groups. Website includes links to the 2021 report, its executive summary, and related resources.
Project Implicit
Project Implicit
An international collaborative network of researchers, Project Implicit investigates ‘implicit social cognition’, and translates the findings into practical applications for addressing diversity. The site offers a self-test for identifying one’s own biases; tools for conducting further research, including public data sets; and a list of manuscripts using data collected at the Project Impact site.
Videos
Video recordings not described as a webinar.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
18-minute video warning that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
How Racial Bias Works—and How to Disrupt It
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Fourteen-minute TED2020 presentation discusses how our unconscious biases unfairly target Black people at all levels of society, from schools and social media to policing and criminal justice, and how creating points of friction can help us actively interrupt and address it.
Implicit Bias Series
UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Describes how biases and heuristics can influence our decision-making and behavior without our awareness.
The Look: A Story About Bias in America
P&G
Two-minute video depicts a Black man’s experiences of prejudicial looks from White people in the course of his everyday activities.
Peanut Butter, Jelly & Racism
The New York Times
2½- minute video discusses ‘implicit bias’ and how it often is derived from paired associations. To illustrate, discusses how some people think of “jelly” when they hear “peanut butter,” and how, similarly, some people think “violence” when they hear “Black men.”
We all Have Implicit Biases. So What Can We Do About It?
Dushaw Hockett
12-minute video describing ‘implicit bias’ and tools for predicting and preventing its occurrence.
What is Viewpoint Diversity?
Heterodox Academy
Short video graphically depicts how confirmation bias can lead to groups of people thinking alike and removing those who think differently.