Dear Reader,
The reader needs to know the main inspiration behind my MGP project in its entirety, my MGP project is the result of about two weeks worth of reading a school psychologists New York Times Best Seller Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? The book is based around Dr. Beverly Tatum’s experience of being a school administrator and dealing with school psychology in education as her early career of being a school counselor. She was inspired to write her book about race and child psychology after being asked by other school administrators at a school district conference where the other administrators asked Beverly “why all the black kids always hung out with each other and had little interest in hanging out with kids outside their race. Dr. Tatum would then have to explain to them the cultural significance of their behavior, inspiring the title of the book. This topic is important especially in today’s modern divided American society because of the current landscape of racial indifference and systemic white supremacy on a global scale. With the acknowledgment of cognitive bias and acknowledgment of each other’s differences, we might be able to prevent the next large scale ethnic catastrophy from happening. I chose to specifically analyze implicit bias based on the reference of the child doll experiment done on four-year-old children, where children chose white dolls over black dolls despite having know known cognitive knowledge of racial differences. This is referred to as subconscious bias and can prove to be very toxic and in some cases life-ruining for example on a court trial or a debate. Therefore my driving question was why do we favor being around what’s familiar to us rather than whats difference. Implicit bias is instilled in us from a young age and leads us to desire others with our own physical, genetic, and cultural characteristics as opposed to others.
Thanks for reading!
Ron Gray.
The reader needs to know the main inspiration behind my MGP project in its entirety, my MGP project is the result of about two weeks worth of reading a school psychologists New York Times Best Seller Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? The book is based around Dr. Beverly Tatum’s experience of being a school administrator and dealing with school psychology in education as her early career of being a school counselor. She was inspired to write her book about race and child psychology after being asked by other school administrators at a school district conference where the other administrators asked Beverly “why all the black kids always hung out with each other and had little interest in hanging out with kids outside their race. Dr. Tatum would then have to explain to them the cultural significance of their behavior, inspiring the title of the book. This topic is important especially in today’s modern divided American society because of the current landscape of racial indifference and systemic white supremacy on a global scale. With the acknowledgment of cognitive bias and acknowledgment of each other’s differences, we might be able to prevent the next large scale ethnic catastrophy from happening. I chose to specifically analyze implicit bias based on the reference of the child doll experiment done on four-year-old children, where children chose white dolls over black dolls despite having know known cognitive knowledge of racial differences. This is referred to as subconscious bias and can prove to be very toxic and in some cases life-ruining for example on a court trial or a debate. Therefore my driving question was why do we favor being around what’s familiar to us rather than whats difference. Implicit bias is instilled in us from a young age and leads us to desire others with our own physical, genetic, and cultural characteristics as opposed to others.
Thanks for reading!
Ron Gray.