{"id":487,"date":"2015-11-17T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=487"},"modified":"2015-11-07T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T09:13:15","slug":"being-colorblind-to-race-is-not-the-answer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/17\/being-colorblind-to-race-is-not-the-answer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Being colorblind to race is not the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media.news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Diversity-Dialogue_605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"403\" \/>Keith\u00a0Maddox and Sam Sommers, associate professors at Tufts University, speak on racial stereotyping and its effects on employment. They discuss the research behind claims of\u00a0&#8220;colorblindness&#8221; and how this thinking is ineffective.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStereotype threat is real. Know the source of anxiety and work to diffuse it. Facing your anxiety can have long-term benefits. Make implicit processes explicit [and] strategize to minimize their impact. Understand yourself and your audience. It\u2019s OK to talk about race \u2026 even necessary.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/11\/being-colorblind-to-race-is-not-the-answer\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith\u00a0Maddox and Sam Sommers, associate professors at Tufts University, speak on racial stereotyping and its effects on employment. They discuss the research behind claims of\u00a0&#8220;colorblindness&#8221; and how this thinking is ineffective. \u201cStereotype threat is real. Know the source of anxiety and work to diffuse it. Facing your anxiety can have long-term benefits. Make implicit processes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/17\/being-colorblind-to-race-is-not-the-answer-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being colorblind to race is not the answer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23,61,46,77,27,34,55,57,4,65,31,51,37,68,74,38],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-asian-american","tag-blackness","tag-culture","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-ethnicity","tag-minorities","tag-poc","tag-race","tag-racial-identity","tag-racial-inequality","tag-racism","tag-social-construct","tag-sociology","tag-stereotypes","tag-white-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}