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

该奖项资助的研究将利用文化人类学家的领域专长来测试减少偏见的策略。 在过去的几年里，在美国，结构性种族主义和人际偏见占据了中心舞台。虽然人们常常建议开展全国性的沿着对话，同时开展多样性意识和培训，作为可能的解决办法，但很少进行研究，以揭示这些办法是否有效，或确定更有效的干预措施。问题不在于缺乏理论上的理解，而在于所提供的许多解释还没有得到任何有意义的评价。关于种族主义的学术研究也受到局限，因为它狭隘地侧重于黑人/白色种族鸿沟，较少关注其他族裔群体面临的偏见。此外，心理学家一再强调，旨在减少偏见和陈规定型观念的做法需要经过实地测试，以确认其效力和普遍性。这个项目直接响应这一呼吁，研究联盟重新调整的有效性，以及积极的群体间接触和教育，以减少偏见和明确的偏见。在罗格斯大学李·克朗克博士的监督下，《夜管》将探讨美国北方大平原上对当代美洲原住民的刻板印象和种族偏见。她将重点介绍最近的Wokiksuye（纪念表演），即圣马协会一年一度的妇女和儿童荣誉骑行，该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。一个混合的方法设计将民族志实地研究与两个不同的心理学实验的复制相结合，一个是利用专门制定的偏见的新措施来评估对土著人的偏见态度，另一个是重复经典的心理学研究，但第一次用不同的祖先群体取代非裔美国人。这个项目将有助于识别和实地测试干预策略的关键任务，能够减少刻板印象和种族偏见，同时提供丰富的纹理数据的人际接触和联盟操纵的影响，对群体间的偏见，并洞察到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.