Unraveling Bias: How Prejudice Has Shaped Children for Generations and Why It's Time to Break the Cycle

Dr. Christia Spears Brown's new book "Unraveling Bias: How Prejudice Has Shaped Children for Generations and Why It's Time to Break the Cycle" offers practical advice for teachers on how to stand up for diversity and inclusiveness in the classroom. She argues that biases and prejudice begin in childhood and infiltrate our kids' lives, no matter how enlightened their parents may be. The only way to have a more just and equitable world is for parents to examine biases beginning in childhood and how they infiltrate their kids' lives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2021
Publisher: BenBella Books

The National Indie Excellence Award Winner — Parenting & Family • 2022 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist — Parenting

"Timely, informative, thought-provoking, inspirationally motivating." — Midwest Book Review

[Brown] offers pragmatic advice for teachers on how to stand up for diversity and inclusiveness in the classroom. — San Francisco Book Review

We need only scan the latest news headlines to see how bias and prejudice harm adults and children alike—every single day.

Police shootings that give rise to the Black Lives Matter revolution. . . . rampant sexual harassment of women and the subsequent #MeToo movement. . . . extreme violence toward trans men and women.

It would be easy to fix these problems if the examples stopped with a few racist or sexist individuals, but there are also biases embedded in our government policies, media, and institutions.

As a developmental psychologist and international expert on stereotypes and discrimination in children, Dr. Christia Spears Brown knows that biases and prejudice don't just develop as people become adults (or CEOs or politicians). They begin when children are young, slowly growing, and exposed to prejudice in their classrooms, after-school activities, and, yes, even in their homes, no matter how enlightened their parents may consider themselves to be. The only way to have a more just and equitable world—not to mention more broad-minded, empathetic children—is for parents to closely examine biases beginning in childhood and how they infiltrate our kids' lives.

In her new book, Unraveling Bias: How Prejudice Has Shaped Children for Generations and Why It's Time to Break the Cycle, Dr. Brown will uncover what scientists have learned about how children are impacted by biases, and how we adults can help protect them from those biases.

Weight: 316g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781953295552