Race dialogues at work have the potential to leave minority employees feeling distressed, exhausted, or dismissed. The year 2020 has been a rough one, especially for Black Americans. The global coronavirus pandemic’s disproportional impact, combined with multiple police murders of unarmed Black people, cast a brighter light on systemic racism in the United States. In[…]
We all have stereotypes about other people. And those stereotypes can hurt you as well as the individual you’re stereotyping. Here’s how to become more aware of your stereotypes and the impact they have. Racial stereotyping involves a fixed, overgeneralized belief about a particular group of people based on their race. And while some[…]
This Juneteenth, we’re sharing resources that might move us all toward more fully claiming our humanity. On Juneteenth, African Americans celebrate emancipation from slavery. On this day we at the Greater Good Science Center would like to share some of the tools we’ve published through the years that attend to the well-being of black[…]
There’s so much pain and raw emotion in our communities and across the world right now. And when our emotions reach a certain degree of intensity, we lose our ability to focus or think rationally. Our emotions consume us, and these overwhelming feelings make day-to-day life more difficult than ever. Some of the most[…]
In recent years, psychologists have done significant research on the impact of systemic racism. Specifically, researchers including Wong et al. (2014) and Bilotta et al. (2019) have explored two kinds of systemic racism—overt and aversive. Overt racism is the type exhibited directly in the form of racial slurs, castigation of others and explicit bias against a[…]
You can’t change the world, but you can help shape the way your children experience this and remember it. And you will. You’re the person they need. I’m not here to tell you what the “good thing” is about the coronavirus situation, because there is no good thing about a pandemic, not ever. That[…]