Students explained their national-origin racial classifications as derived from media depictions rather than direct knowledge¶

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q2 i? In breakout discussions, most students admitted they had not visited the countries and had derived perceptions of national populations from movies, television, and newspaper or magazine articles. → 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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Qualitative small-group discussion and guided whole-class reporting in the treated course after the classification exercise. Students also said unfamiliar countries "it must be non -White," revealing an assumed-homogeneity heuristic.

"When asked where this knowledge about other countries came from, most students admitted that they had not actually visited these countries, but rather had derived a general perception of a country's population based on media depictions in movies, television, and newspaper or magazine articles."

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Related Claims¶

• Before the lessons, the treated and non-treated classes did not differ significantly in how they classified the twenty-seven nationalities — related
• Students entered the courses highly confident they could identify their own and others' race and ethnicity — related
• Treated students attributed their new uncertainty to personal and emotive engagement with classmates' self-identified racial narratives — related
• Students who received active-learning lessons designed to raise racial doubt became far less certain in classifying nationalities as White or non-White than students in a lecture-only course — related