Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Anthropological Approach to Evaluation Prejudice Reduction Strategies

这项由该奖项资助的研究将利用文化人类学家的领域专业知识来测试减少偏见的策略。在过去的几年里，结构性种族主义和人际偏见在美国占据了中心舞台。虽然人们经常建议将全民对话以及多样性意识和培训作为潜在的解决方案，但很少有研究揭示这些方法是否有效或确定更有效的干预措施。问题不是缺乏理论上的理解，而是许多解释还没有得到任何有意义的评估。对种族主义的学术研究也受到对黑人/白人种族鸿沟的狭隘关注，对其他族裔群体面临的偏见的关注较少。此外，心理学家一再强调，旨在减少偏见和刻板印象的做法需要进行实地测试，以确认其有效性和普适性。这个项目直接响应了这一呼吁，研究了联盟重组的有效性，以及积极的群体间接触和教育，以减少偏见和明显的偏见。米歇尔·L·奈特·派克博士在罗格斯大学的李·克朗克博士的指导下，将探索针对美国北部大平原上当代美洲原住民的刻板印象和种族偏见。她将专注于最近的Wokiksuye(纪念表演)，这是神马协会一年一度的向妇女和儿童致敬的骑马活动，似乎成功地在地方一级建立了美洲原住民和非原住民社区之间的积极关系。混合方法设计将融合人种学田野研究和两个不同心理学实验的复制，一个利用专门为评估对原住民的偏见态度而制定的新的偏见测量，另一个重复经典的心理学研究，但首次用不同的祖先群体取代非裔美国人。这个项目将有助于确定和实地测试能够减少陈规定型观念和种族偏见的干预策略，同时提供丰富的质地数据，说明人际接触和联盟操纵对群体间偏见的影响，并深入了解我们的内隐和外显偏见的整体可塑性。

The research funded by this award will use the field expertise of cultural anthropologists to test prejudice reduction strategies. Over the last several years in the United States, structural racism and interpersonal prejudice have taken center stage. While a national conversation along with diversity awareness and training are often suggested as potential solutions, little research has been conducted to reveal whether these approaches work or to identify the more effective interventions. The problem is not a lack of theoretical understanding, but instead that the many explanations offered have yet to be evaluated in any meaningful sense. Academic studies of racism have also been limited by a narrow focus on the black/white racial divide, with less attention directed to the prejudice faced by other ethnic groups. Further, psychologists have repeatedly emphasized that practices designed to reduce prejudice and stereotyping need to be field-tested to confirm their efficacy and generalizability. This project directly responds to that call by studying the effectiveness of coalitional realignment, as well as positive intergroup contact and education, on reducing bias and explicit prejudice.Michelle L. Night Pipe, under the supervision of Dr. Lee Cronk, Rutgers University, will explore stereotyping and racial prejudice directed toward contemporary Native Americans on the northern Great Plains of the United States. She will focus on a recent Wokiksuye (commemorative performance), the Sacred Horse Society's annual Ride to Honor the Women and Children, which appears successful in forging positive relationships between Native American and non-Native communities at the local level. A mixed methods design will blend ethnographic field research with the replication of two different psychology experiments, one utilizing a new measure of prejudice specifically formulated to assess prejudicial attitudes toward Native people, and the other repeating a classic psychology study but for the first time replacing African Americans with a different ancestry group. This project will contribute to the critical task of identifying and field-testing intervention strategies capable of reducing stereotyping and racial prejudice, while providing richly textured data on the the effects of interpersonal contact and coalitional manipulation on intergroup prejudice, and insights into the overall malleability of our implicit and explicit biases.