TEACHSOC: Re: IAT

[Del Thomas Ph D]

Hi, I took a quick look at the site and decided that further time would have limited value....  I also sensed that the site appeared not to be authentic. However, I send along some comments on race that suggest we may need to take a step back and test what we are currently doing.   The PA NASW chapter's 2007 annual meeting theme is undoing racism.  I posted a set of related questions to a list of social workers.... one was on the issue of judging statements on their merit rather than the ethnicity/heritage of the author. Below are the comments on that and related matters made by a social worker. "3. It seems to me that somehow all the responsibility for racial sensitivity has been shifted to the practitioner/service provider.  Seems to me there is an equal responsibility for the client/service recipient to be racially sensitive as well. 4. Racial sensitivity does indeed seem to be about whites. In several ways. When I was studying for my LCSW license three years ago all the examples were about white practictioners being sensitive to the cultural differences of minorities. There wasn't one example of one minority person being sensitive to the cultural differences of other minorities. 5. What is the process by which folks like social workers have come to spend so much time and effort on racism? At what point does it become paternalistic and therefore racist?" This is not all that different from some of the private posts I have received.....this person was someone's student in sociology. Del Robert Greene wrote: Hi everyone, I found this today in a book I was reading. The Implicit Administration Test (IAT) and the author spent considerable time discussing the Race IAT. I was wondering who has used this in class and how to handle the ethical dilemma of presenting this research. Also, what kind of criticism it has drawn. Thanks! Here is the website for those not familiar with it. www.implicit.harvard.edu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to teachsoc@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---