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Reflection | Social Justice

Intergroup Anxiety
ByDana Huff July 1, 2020

This video about intergroup anxiety was really interesting to me. I have found myself in the position described in the video of trying so hard to be fair that I overcompensate by acting weird. Once when I was at a conference, I was so awkward when placed in a discussion group with two women I…

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Reflection | Social Justice

Understanding Implicit Bias
ByDana Huff June 30, 2020

I watched Verna Myers’s TED Talk this evening. Have you taken the Implicit Bias Test? If you do, be forewarned that you may discover things about yourself that you are not ready to deal with. What I found really refreshing in Myers’s talk is that she offers a way to combat implicit bias: simply expose…

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