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Information Literacy: Be Savvy about your Sources: Stereotypes & Race

Information-savvy: Having a shrewd understanding of how to deal with information. Alternative descriptions: "Information Competency" or "Information Fluency"

What is a Stereotype?

The less you know about something, the more your mind has to guess.

Guesses are often based on prior experience, or other people's stories.

Prior experience may be so limited that it is not an accurate indicator of future interactions.

Stories are often distorted for entertainment.

Theoretically, stereotypes should be replaced with actual knowledge.  Realistically, stereotypes are seldom challenged unless something happens to create a reason to change the initial assumption.  Challenging stereotypes is hard work.

Jane Elliott on Her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise" and Fighting Racism

Understandingrace.org

Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real

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