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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Schools Matter: Bob Samuels on Racism in California

Schools Matter: Bob Samuels on Racism in California

Bob Samuels on Racism in California

and elsewhere. From HuffPo, a clip:
. . . . In his book, The Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam reviews the latest studies of how racism works, and he documents some surprising findings. One of the more upsetting discoveries is that children as young as three-years-old will associate positive traits with white people and negative traits with black people regardless of the race of the child or the attitudes of the children's parents and teachers.