this slipped my mind until i saw Susan's post...i use the PBS Frontline
Video (also available streaming on the Frontline site), "A class
divided" -- this is the 3rd grade teacher in Iowa in 1970 or 72 who
segregates the class based on eye color. within a very short period of
time, all of the dynamics of prejudice and discrimination emerge. i
typically stop and start the DVD numerous times to make the point of how
arbitrary categories are and yet how great the impact is that they have
on our behavior.
i also checked my Eurekalert RSS feed yesterday and found this...thought
it was timely:
Male murderers with stereotypically ''black-looking'' features are more
than twice as likely to get the death sentence than lighter-skinned
African American defendants found guilty of killing a white person,
Stanford researchers have found. The relationship between physical
appearance and the death sentence disappears, however, when both
murderers and their victims are black.
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/su-sc052506.php>
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Male
murderers with stereotypically ''black-looking'' features are more than
twice as likely to get the death sentence than lighter-skinned African
American defendants found guilty of killing a white person, Stanford
researchers have found. The relationship between physical appearance
and the death sentence disappears, however, when both murderers and
their victims are black.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/su-sc052506.php
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