Students entered the courses highly confident they could identify their own and others' race and ethnicity¶

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q2 i? 97% of students reported no difficulty filling out the 2010 U.S. Census race and ethnicity section, and 94% said they could identify others' race by picture or country of origin. → Cherry et al. 2014

Evidence¶

Cherry et al. 2014¶

Stephen M. Cherry, Amy Lucas, Kim A. Case, and William T. Hoston. (2014). Who is White? Assessing Students' Perceptions of Whiteness through Active-Learning Effectiveness and the Construction of Racial Doubt. The Journal of Effective Teaching, Vol. 14, No.3, 2014, 68-83. http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

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Week-two opening exercise in both courses (N = 97): students completed the race and ethnicity section of the 2010 U.S. Census, then were asked hypothetically whether they could identify others' race from pictures or country of origin; most (94%) said they would have no difficulty.

"In both classes, 97% of the students reported ha v- ing no issue filling out the form and were confident in their understandings of their own race and ethnicity."

Discussion¶

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