This website created by the American Anthropological Association is a great way to explore the social construction of race. There’s an awesome timeline that traces political and scientific trends where you can click on any part of it and get more information. It’s a great resource.It also includes this great 7 minute video called “A Girl Like Me”:
I’d actually love to get some feedback on this video. I really like it, but last time I showed it (in a social psychology portion of a Race and Ethnicity course), the class had a hard time recovering. It was depressing and I wasn’t very successful in DOING something SOCIOLOGICAL with it. Any ideas?
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
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jessica — December 16, 2007
I used this video in my Social Inequality seminar and followed it up with some footage from "Mickey Mouse Monopoly" about gender and race stereotypes in Disney movies. I found it REALLY effective. The students were able to figure out where even these kids in the AAA video were getting these ideas and to realize that they, too, had been exposed to them and knew them. Maybe it would be a good thing to follow up with Gladwell's discussion of the IAT in Blink or even having the students take some IAT tests themselves.
El Marginalio — January 9, 2008
OK, here is my comment. I would like to see some data regarding skin tone prefrences within other social groups. I have seen the same reaction amongst East Indian and Latina women as well. I don't think that this experince is unique to African-American women.
Hannah — February 16, 2008
there's a really funny, yet upsetting story on the matchmaker-themed broadcast of this american life about a girl working at the fao schwartz fancy doll adoption center when they ran out of white baby dolls--it's a must-hear:
http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=347
(act three)
El Marginalio — February 16, 2008
I heard that show a few weeks ago. There were a lot of 'cringe' moments in the story! A bizzare, yet fascinating unintended sociological experiment. Definitely worth a listen if you haven't heard it.
Elisha — June 8, 2008
What is the race of the woman interviewing the children?
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