This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the physical and psychological toll on African Americans’ daily lives as a result of systemic racism with Mary-Frances Winters, founder and president of The Winters Group, Inc. and author of Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit.
microaggressions
Signal Detection (Part Two)
We’ve covered what signal detection theory is, so how does it come up when we assign labels to behaviors that could be considered “micro aggressions”? Are there significant benefits to these labels?
In the second episode of this two-part conversation on Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke continue their discussion on signal detection.
Signal Detection (Part One)
When thinking about the concept of a “micro aggression”, what we’re really doing is subscribing to signal detection theory. What is the theory and how does it come into play when we’re dissecting the behaviors of others?
In the first episode of this two-part conversation on Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss signal detection.
Dr. Harold Young (Ep. 17, 2017)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Harold Young, assistant professor in the department of Political Science at Austin Peay University and author of Incoming Fire From All Directions: Microaggressions Faced By Students and Faculty of Color.