Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
In order to change negative expectations of others to orient all people to success, we need to educate all people about the cycle of racial conditioning and how it impacts our perceptions of others.
No one is born with racial prejudice. Racial prejudice is learned. Starr (1996) defined racial prejudices an entire ethnic group, usually based on limited information. Our society conditions people to exhibit racial prejudice through the information we receive (subtly or overtly) in our homes, from authority figures, and through the media. When this information is withheld, distorted, or full of gross misinformation, it scares people. It instills mistrust and alters a person's ability to develop positive, open, trusting relationships with members of other ethnic groups (Starr).
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
78
Last Page
81
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1997 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Braley, Carolyn
(1997)
"Racism Doesn't Occur by Accident - Institutions Condition People,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 27.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol7/iss1/27
