Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:13:40 -0800
From: "Marlene R. Atleo" <maratleo-AT-island.net>
Subject: Re: Stereotypes 


I always think it is useful to begin by looking at some of the research
into how stereotyping works for race and gender to gound such a discussion
and provide insight into the possible wherefores and whys.  Unless one has
been at the receiving end of stereotyping its really difficult to "see" at
the cognitive level because there is little experiential knowing to which
one can refer.  Much of the rhetoric uses either the experiential level or
at the human rights discussion level...neither of which is
satisfying/convincing if stereotyping is a "natural cognitive/affective
phenomenon" based in categorizations of us/them...... There is a research
program out of Stanford on expectation states using a Baysian approach with
which I was particularily impressed that goes into the "way" stereotypes
work with variables like gender, race, status, other categories....under
various conditions....
looking at what lies under/behind/roundabout stereotypes might let us
dismantle them more readily....and understand them for analytic purposes....
mar


At 09:03 AM 12/15/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Would anyone have any suggestions for a 16 yr old putting together a paper
>on stereotypes of the middle east and its populations in the US with a
>focus on, among other things, the racist (news media)frenzy that followed
>in the immediate wake of the Oklahoma City bombing?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jane Winston
>--
>Jane Winston, Assistant Professor
>Department of French and Italian
>Northwestern University
>(847) 491 8255
>
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