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“African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans were second-class-status Americans. They were seldom welcomed and were told to stay in their place and not allowed into the mainstream culture of the privileged even when fully acculturated.”
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
“(c) attaining a racially color-blind society is unattainable and only reinforces racism and societal inequality.”
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
“When people of color talk racism, Whites seem to interpret statements as a personal accusation, and rather than reach out to understand the content, respond in a defensive and protective posture. In many cases, even statements of racial facts/statistics such as definitions of racism, disparities in income and education, segregation of neighborhoods, hate crime figures, and so forth arouse defensiveness in many Whites.”
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
“multicultural education that has a strong antiracist orientation is of utmost importance in helping children to develop a nonracist identity.”
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
“Through a process of social conditioning, however, White children are increasingly taught to associate only positive qualities with their own race and negative ones with other racial groups. The process of our cultural conditioning occurs through significant others (Sue, 2003), our educational curriculum (Minow, Shweder, & Markus, 2008), the mass media (Cortes, 2008), and institutions in society (APA Presidential Task Force, 2012; J. M. Jones, 1997).”
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
― Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
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