Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History

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Taught by
James D. Anderson
Edward William and Jane Marr Gutsgell Professor of Education
and 12 more instructors

Offered by
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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r/politics • comment
1 points • Scubalefty

Something for you to consider ...

https://www.coursera.org/learn/race-cultural-diversity-american-life

r/JordanPeterson • comment
1 points • erythrocyte666

Sure thing, here are a few that I like that are balanced and focus primarily on the facts:

Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History Coursera course

Police Brutality Teach-Out from U Michigan

r/entj • comment
1 points • enchwurm

I looked these up for OP, but he deleted his account so I will give them to you 💛

here

And here - this is long but relevant. You could also check out the references for more material.

From the article above:

>Given these findings, how is it that people often persist in believing that people from different countries hold different values? Some factors are likely to be motivational: abundant evidence points to the roles of realistic group conflict (Bobo, 1983), social identification (Tajfel and Turner, 1986), symbolic racism (Kinder and Sears, 1981), and various biases (e.g., symbolic self-completion, Gollwitzer et al., 1982, or system justification, Jost and Banaji, 1994) that can lead us to feel that our own group is superior to other groups in numerous characteristics, including values. Other factors are cognitive: social learning (Bandura et al., 1961) and stereotyping processes (e.g., illusory correlation, Hamilton and Rose, 1980) may lead us to encode other groups’ characteristics in ways that magnify the differences between groups. More relevant to the present research, however, is the nature of the values concept itself. Specifically, as abstract ideals, values subsume a wide range of behaviors as exemplars of the concepts. People may perceive differences between social groups because of the differences between groups in the specific behaviors that are seen as exemplars of different values, even if other behaviors that are exemplars of the values do not differ. Thus, by thinking about groups in terms of concrete instances, differences may be stronger than similarities.

>In other words, people in different social groups may endorse the same values but associate different behaviors with them (Maio, 2010). 

r/USHistory • comment
2 points • fnatic_questions

Here’s a few. I haven’t taken these, but I’ve done other courses from these sources. I’m sure there’s a resource out there focused specifically on this subject, but I’m not sure where to look.

https://oyc.yale.edu/african-american-studies/afam-162

https://www.coursera.org/learn/nonviolence

https://www.coursera.org/learn/race-cultural-diversity-american-life

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-912-black-matters-introduction-to-black-studies-spring-2017/

r/PublicFreakout • comment
-1 points • FreeThinkingMan

> It's people like you who think Black people are oppressed and "kept down by the man" or whatever because they are Black, that makes Blacks have such a mind set.

You are saying that because people say black people experience racism little black kids think white is better than black and dark skin is bad? You are an idiot. Educate yourself on the subject so you can stop making a fool out of yourself and being a bigot laughing at what you did. You are aware that entire academic fields exist examining this subject right? Fields that bigots like yourself write off because you don't know what a credible source of information is or how to think for yourself. If you can muster the courage I recommend you educate yourself, best of luck kid. Knowledge is power.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/race-cultural-diversity-american-life