Harvard Project Implicit (Implicit Bias Test)

From the site: "The Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT mat be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about."

What Would You Do? Bike Theft (Video, 5 mins.)

In this clip from ABC's What Would You Do? television program, a social experiment is conducted in a park. Three people try to steal a bike out in the open: a white male teenager, a black male teenager, and a young white woman. Watch the video and reflect on the implicit bias at play.

Microaggressions (Video, 11 mins.)

Produced by Middleton High School alumnae: Sophie Boorstein (2017), Malaika Maka (2017), Anahi Mancillas (2018), and Camilla Vellon (2017)

Implicit bias can show up in the form of microaggressions. In this video, Middleton High School students explain microaggressions and share microaggressions they have experienced in our schools.

Microaggressions Table (Handout)

Adapted by Patricia A. Burak, Ph.D., Tae-Sun Kim, Ph.D., and Amit Taneja, Doctoral Candidate, Syracuse University 2009

This table gives examples of microaggresions organized by theme. It also shares the implicit message behind each microaggression.

Research-Based Strategies for Reducing Bias

Handout from the MCPASD Equity Institute

How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them

Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (Book) by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony Greenwald

From the jacket: "Leading psychologists Banaji & Greenwald explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality." Their experiences with the Implicit Association Test (linked above) are used.