[LM_NET] Research on stereotypes

[Debbie Reese <debreese@ILLINOIS.EDU>]

Good morning,

Earlier this week, cultural psychologist 
Stephanie Fryberg (PhD from Stanford) was on our 
campus presenting her research on the effects of 
Native imagery on the self-esteem of Native and 
non-Native children. It was chilling, frightening.

A glimpse of the research:

Students in the study were shown images of 
Pocahontas and Chief Wahoo. Follow-up testing 
self esteem showed that Native students who 
viewed the images was lower after viewing the 
images. Non-Native students self-esteem was 
elevated after viewing the images. They were also 
shown Fighting Irish imagery but that had no 
effect on either group. Newest research (not yet 
published) also demonstrated that, when shown a 
brown-skinned person (guy in t-shirt) following 
the Native imagery, non-Native students held 
negative feelings about the brown-skinned person.

Emails get lost/deleted, so if later on you lose 
this email, go to my blog. I wrote about the 
study there (here's the tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/artonp).

I'm willing to send you a pdf of the published article, too.

Debbie


Visit my Internet resource:
American Indians in Children's Literature
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net

Debbie A. Reese (Nambé O'-ween-ge')
Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Native American House, Room 2005
1204 West Nevada Street, MC-138
Urbana, Illinois 61801

Email: debreese@illinois.edu
TEL 217-265-9885
FAX 217-265-9880







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