Huh. I missed the vaccines/autism reference. And that would normally catch my eye.
I was iffy about Blink, but loved him pointing out stereotype threat, which I hadn't previously heard of. I found it a good indicator of how high the bar of behavior needs to be set if you don't want to be playing into the background racism. (That is, acting as if racism doesn't enter your classroom unless someone explicitly invokes it isn't good enough, because racism is already there in all your students' heads. You have to actively oppose what the students, white and POC, are bringing in with them.) On the other hand, you can oppose it. I found this article, as reviewed by Ed Yong, quite encouraging.
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I was iffy about Blink, but loved him pointing out stereotype threat, which I hadn't previously heard of. I found it a good indicator of how high the bar of behavior needs to be set if you don't want to be playing into the background racism. (That is, acting as if racism doesn't enter your classroom unless someone explicitly invokes it isn't good enough, because racism is already there in all your students' heads. You have to actively oppose what the students, white and POC, are bringing in with them.) On the other hand, you can oppose it. I found this article, as reviewed by Ed Yong, quite encouraging.