Confronting discrimination and prejudice
Description
Encourage students to explore biases and stereotypes with this group of ABC News segments. Each scenario puts actors into exchanges with unwitting bystanders, generating a wide range of responses-from overt hostility towards other races and cultures to acts of genuine compassion. Scenes include a bakery clerk's refusal to serve a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf; cruelty towards an overweight woman seated on a boardwalk; a very public argument that threatens to become violent; and a purse-snatching in a crowded square, after which witnesses are asked to view a suspect lineup. Repeating the two latter situations, producers achieve varying reactions among onlookers by switching the races of the actors.
Runtime
37 min
Series
Subjects
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) (73)
- Social ethics (15)
- Sociology (1145)
- Interpersonal relations (422)
- Racism (548)
- Ethics (196)
- Prejudices (79)
- Race discrimination (130)
- Cross-cultural studies (31)
- Philosophy (274)
- Responsibility (28)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2008], c2008
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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