Implicit biases are unconscious negative attitudes or prejudices toward people.
Everyone has implicit biases. That’s why it’s so important to uncover your own preconceived notions. This process can be difficult, so be kind to yourself on your journey toward awareness.
Here are some resources that you can use to support exploration of your own implicit biases.
Videos
- 4 Steps for Busting Unconscious Bias
- We all have implicit biases. So what can we do about it?
- Implicit Bias — how it effects us and how we push through
Implicit Association Test
The IAT measures attitudes and beliefs that you may not even be aware you hold. Take a test to learn more about your automatic associations.
Racism
Racism is bias based on race. Implicit bias can be directed at any group of people. So, while implicit bias and racism are related, they’re not the same. Everyone harbors implicit biases—and the same is true for racism. Everyone—consciously or unconsciously—holds some racist ideas.
Videos
Books
- How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
- Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
- Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
- White Fragility, Robin Diangelo
- Citizen: An American Lyrics, Claudia Rankine
- The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- Heavy, Kiese Laymon
- Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
- Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, Nathan McCall
Podcasts
- 1619 – The Fight for True Democracy
- Codeswitch – A Decade of Watching Black People Die
- Still Processing – Kaepernick
- The Daily – Systems That Protect the Police
- The Ezra Klein Show – 6/8/2020 Episode
- No White Saviours (@nowhitesaviours)
- Layla Saad (@laylafsaad)
- Rachel Cargle (@rachel.cargle)
- Check Your Privilege (@ckyourprivilege)
- Rachel Ricketts (@iamrachelricketts)
- The Great Unlearn (@thegreatunlearn)
- Reni Eddo-Lodge (renieddolodge)
- Brittany Packnett Cunningham (@mspackyett)