A Brief Note On The Race Bias Theory

Over the winter, my dad wanted to visit some family members in Canada so my whole family decided to go together as a little vacation. At first, as we were going through the security checkpoint, we were laughing and messing around in Farsi, but all of a sudden we were stopped by a few security guards. They asked my father to step to the side so that they could do a random screening and my dad, although he gave no reason to be considered suspicious, agreed. However, this “random screening” began with the guards asking my dad where he was born, how long he’s lived in the United States, and what were his religious affiliations all the while looking at him as if they already knew he was dangerous without even allowing him to prove them wrong. As I was watching their exchange, I realized that society does not truly accept Middle Eastern people and their culture. Ever since the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, racial bias has become more prominent against Arabs and Muslims and as a born American citizen with a Middle Eastern heritage, this bias is very clear to me, especially since I do not appear to be from a country in the Middle East. When I am alone with my friends, I am treated as an everyday American, not even given a second glance. However, when I am with my dad or any of my aunts and uncles, we are constantly given wary looks, as if we might be hiding something. This brings me to my main question, What can be done in order to make society more accepting of people

For this assignment, I’ve decided to complete the Race Implicit Bias Test. I decided to take that test because I wanted to see which race I had an automatic preference toward. I expected my results to be either be neutral or have a slight preference to White people to Black people.

“I can’t breathe,” imagine having to hear your father, son, or brother desperately gasp for air while murmuring those words, “I can’t breathe.” It’s heart wrenching, but now visualize him being viscously choked from behind by a police officer. The predicament is startling and unseen. Your loved one has surrendered but the officer has no intention of relinquishing his grip, restricting the airway, making it incredibly difficult to breathe. Suddenly, the police officer forces your loved one’s motionless body to the ground, proceeding by mashing his face into the pavement. Slowly loosing conscious, he lifelessly lays on the Staten Island concrete. Nobody performs CPR, not even the ambulance upon their arrival. Your loved one is pronounced dead at the hospital, and the officer who stole his life walks a free man.

This bias is the most misunderstood social problem in America today. Since studies are showing that people are less racist than they were a few decades ago, now this bias is now harder to recognize meaning harder to treat. Most people possess this bias, proven by the most famous test an IAT test conducted by a group of Yale social scientists the test comprehends hidden bias states that 88% of people indicate a bias towards other people. Since the IAT shows a high number of bias seen in people the problems become pervasive. This means that we

In the article The World Is Not Black and White: Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot in a Multiethnic Context Implicit racial biases were examined in the decision to shoot potentially hostile targets in a multiethnic context. Results of two studies showed that college aged participants and police officers showed anti-black racial bias in their response times: the participants were quicker to “correctly” shoot armed black men or targets and to indicate “don’t shoot” for unarmed Latino, Asian and white targets. In addition to this, the police officers showed racial biases in response times toward Latino versus Asians or whites, and surprisingly, toward whites versus Asians (Sadler, Correll, Park, Judd, 2012, pg.286). These results also

I enjoyed your post, details and your view points about the second weeks’ topic. Race as a social construct is defined as an “illusion” or a subjective social construct () We have identified race does exists apart from our cooperative agreement, recognition within our cultural existence. The entire society that is constructed around us is subject to race and it’s stereotypes, and is an everlasting fixture in our complex culture. Ethnicity is used as a social ranking in society, constructed by society. If we intermingle race and ethnicity, which are social “illusions”, we are primarly creating a category that is not fundamentally real. Society overtime have shaped race and ethnicity within our culture and created groups of social minorities.

The raters came to the conclusion that White-primed biracials are more likely than Black-primed biracials to be thinking about their White identity after writing the essay about their chosen parent’s ethnicity. Rates found that Black-primed biracials are likely to be thinking of their Black identity than White-primed biracials. These results showed that the priming was effective in priming biracials to identify more with one of their races.

The subject of race in the world is a topic that is extremely sensitive to discuss and analysis. Ever since man evolved enough to think, comprehend, speak, and portray emotions; that was when the division of race began. The brain was able to make out the differences in people and whoever looked the same began to group up. Communities started too form all over the globe and individuals become groups of people. Over time, the human species advanced with great pace eventually, leading up to the present day and what we know about life today. The human mind is a wonderful thing to understand how it works and observe its changes throughout the evolution of man. To see race in a broader spectrum, I will use the lens of psychological to see how race works at Elizabethtown College.

Race should never be a factor or a consideration in any decision making process, regardless of an individual’s chosen profession. In order to effectively evaluate employees, students, colleagues and others, people must consider numerous factors over a prolonged period of time to help create a picture of their attitude, personality, and behavior patterns. This is depicted in the current presidential race, as the media and other sources try to search resources in an attempt to display a pattern of behavior that substantiates the candidate's values and qualifications. In Marco’s case, the teacher has an obligation, both morally and legally, to provide him the same opportunities as the rest of the student population. According the NEA’s Code of

Racial bias is still a very active issue in society today. This paper explores the understanding of racial bias in business hiring. This is critical because racial bias continually uniforms businesses in hiring decisions. The prevalence of racial bias in business hiring, potential interventions, and explanations of why this occurs will be explored. How prevalent is racial bias in business hiring today and how can it be mediated?

The concept of race in modern world that is generally accepted by the public is different groups of people that share the same genetic divergences that are observable (Phenotype) (wiki). The most prominent example is the classification system use by the U.S Government: White (Caucasoid); Black (Congoid); Asian (Mongoloid); Native and Hispanic. This system adheres the modern race concept as all of the classifications are based on phenotypes of different people. Some older concepts of race are based on differences in ethnicity or origin. This kind of concepts were used in WWII as Germany classified its people into Aryan (pure German) and Jewish. Although viewed differently, most of the time the sole purpose of race classification is for the majority to enforced discriminations on the minority (Racism).

In the United States, racism and stereotype bias is an important issue that we still struggle with today and it impacts how we understand each other. Throughout U.S history, people that were mixed (part-white and part-black) were typically identified as Black. Arnold Ho, Susan Gelman and Steven Roberts, U-M professors of psychology published a scientific article (Ho et al., 2015) looking into the cognitive backgrounds behind how an individual categorizes other individuals based on race. They performed studies on categorization on how we categorize multiracial individuals. The study combined research on racial existentialism, existentialism meaning ideals and negative bias in order to explain the difference in the way people categorize multiracial individuals as “black” over “white”. Their findings suggest that categorization biases, also known as hypodescent, influence how we categorize multiracial individuals.

This test will measure the strength of association between the concepts African American of Caucasian and the attributes pleasant and unpleasant. Participants will be asked to categorize words and pictures that represent these concepts and categories. For this experiment, either White faces will paired with pleasant words and Black faces paired with unpleasant words, or White faces will be paired with unpleasant words and Black faces paired with pleasant words. A respondents latency for the two different pairing combinations will be the basis for comparison. If participants were faster to pair White with pleasant and Black with unpleasant than White with unpleasant and Black with pleasant, we assumed that they implicitly preferred Caucasians over African Americans and vice versa.

Prejudice is a biased view of people of a different culture or race.Prejudice is deeply rooted in human nature, and lack of interaction between different racial groups also contributes to prejudice. Also,society’s prejudice against a certain group of individuals will cause other people to feel the same way.

In Teitelbaum and Geiselman study Cross- race recognition was examined over black and white faces where the applicants consisted of whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians. It is said that people of the same race are more likely to recognize faces of their own race rather than people of a different race. However when adding moods such as pleasant and unpleasant it was easier for the participant to recognize the faces when they were in an unpleasant atmosphere. Likewise when adding moods whatever mood is portrayed in that person, that is most likely what the participant would remember. This study most likely describes the availability heuristic, in which it is the process where we easily access the most accessible memories. For example, if we are