Stereotype threat

white students. According to a student-created flyer handed out at school, LAUSD records and students’ comments state that, “searches happen more often in schools with many Black students” and “Muslim students get targeted for searches based on stereotypes that they are dangerous.” This demonstrates that students of color aren't even safe at their schools and can't learn because they are being targeted with these…

tells parts of the truth. Entire voices and experiences are erased in the face of a broad explanation, which is often easier to understand through its one-sided simplicity. The single story manifests itself through society in the form of harmful stereotypes of racial, ethnic, national and religious groups. However, literature allows us the opportunity to inspect and understand the way a single story can affect the actions and experiences of a set of characters, through understanding what they…

Racial prejudice, otherwise known as colorism, takes place within and between races/ethnic backgrounds. “To a molecular biologist, skin color is a trivial human characteristic, one controlled by a minuscule genetic difference” (Myers 247). People may experience racial prejudice in the form of harassment around the workplace. For example, being called racial slurs or having derogatory remarks made toward them regarding their skin color or ethnic background. Other forms of racial or ethnic…

Participants in contact were likely to experience “attitude strength,” “outgroup trust,” and “forgiveness” as well as reducing implicit bias and “automatic physiological threat responses to out-group members” (Hewstone & Swart, 2011, 376). Contact can change these fundamental attributes of one’s character and self. Additionally, those who participated in intergroup contact gain positive attitudes not only toward the outgroup…

Oppression is a significant issue that has been growing in discourse as of late. As time progresses, the way people are treated and the opinions they hold change. When there is a group of people who have their rights changed, it will cause other groups to believe they are being cheated out of chances the privileges those people are allowed access to. While this may be accurate in rare cases, it is also difficult to argue strongly on the side of the people who have been, and still are…

Stereotypes are present everywhere: in schools, on the streets, at work, everywhere. Asians are stereotyped as nerds; African Americans, criminals. It is too easy to assume another’s personality based on the looks of another due to the thoughts implanted by society. In the essay “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples, an African American writer, the author clearly depicts how stereotypes automatically create a person’s personality without getting to know someone through his use of a relatable…

The invention of the radio has profoundly changed the American culture with its creation by allowing more and more people being exposed to new ideas, music, news, and entertainment. This idea of expression of individual tastes in music is central to American culture, which correlates to the Americans’ unique belief that each citizen has freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; people have the freedom to listen , read, or watch whatever media they wish to. The first place that…

Interestingly, when I reached out to my mom and asked about her perception of millennials, she said, “I don’t know. I have a hard time with stereotypes of any kind. I think people are just people, regardless of when they were born.” This was challenging to hear because it significantly detracted from the majority of my research. With this in mind, I want to be careful with the argument I make in…

Ralph Ellison author of The Invisible Man uses many stereotypes to show the progression of his main character’s experience in a racist era. In Chapter 10 of the piece the narrator encounters the age old stereotype that blacks are bad and if you are not white then your not right. When he encounters the company Liberty Paint he begins to realize the numerous underlying stereotypes that are portrayed. One instance includes the moment when the narrator is mixing white…

that the social identity or a stereotype of a person has an impact on his daily life. Similarly, in her poem entitled "Citizen: An American Lyrics", Claudia…