Discrimination and Prejudice
This section explains what prejudice and discrimination is and what strategies you can use to challenge and tackle it.
Experiencing prejudice and discrimination at work or in the community can create fear, anxiety and stress. The toolkit will also encourage us to identify and address our own bias and prejudice, and how we challenge inequality within the workplace.
For more about addressing workplace discrimination you can also view C3’s publication in the British Journal of Primary Care Nursing on how nurses can be powerful advocates for black, Asian and minority patients and colleagues, especially during COVID-19 when they are more at risk for severe disease.
BBC: Videos about discrimination
What is it?
A selection of programmes from the BBC about discrimination.
Type of resource
Videos
EdChange: Activities & strategies to begin talking about race and cultural awareness in teams
What is it?
A variety of activities, and strategies to begin talking about race and cultural awareness in teams.
Type of resource
Webpage
Equality Advisory and Support Service: Helpline
What is it?
The Helpline advises and assists individuals on issues relating to equality and human rights, across England, Scotland and Wales. We can also accept referrals from organisations which, due to capacity or funding issues, are unable to provide ‘in depth help and support’ to local users of their services local users of their services.
Type of resource
Helpline
Deeper Than Skin Deep
What is it?
In his latest blog post NHS psychotherapist Graham Music talks about Black Lives Matter, racism, evolved capacities for prejudice, finding empathy and compassion.
This blog is to critically introduce, and contextualise, new research findings from developmental research, neuroscience, attachment theory and other areas of psychology that are topical.
Type of resource
Blog post
Project Implicit: Test Your Biases
What is it?
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) takes you through a series of questions to help you understand your own biases. As well as race, there are quizzes to test for age, gender and sexuality biases too.
Type of resource
Online Test
Simply Psychology: Prejudice and discrimination explained
What is it?
Prejudice and discrimination explained.
Type of resource
Online post
Springer Nature: Free articles, ebooks, podcasts about Social Inequality & Systemic Racism
What is it?
Springer Nature is giving free access to a variety of content relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement. Includes articles and ebooks on systemic racism, social inequality and health disparities, and podcasts from black women working in research.
Type of resource
Free articles, ebooks, podcasts
Act.tv: Systematic racism explained
What is it?
A five-minute animated video explaining anti-racism. The video contrasts the stories of two boys; Jamal and Kevin.
Type of resource
YouTube video
TED Talk: The prejudice you don’t know you have
What is it?
No matter how strongly you are committed to egalitarian values, it is likely that you harbour unconscious prejudices that affect the hiring decisions you make, the way you treat the people around you, and the politicians for whom you vote. In this talk, we describe some of the social psychology research that uncovers these widespread prejudices; and we ask what steps we might take to reduce their potency or mitigate their effects.
Type of resource
YouTube video
TED Talk: I am not your Asian stereotype
What is it?
Eighteen-year-old Canwen Xu shares her Asian-American story of breaking stereotypes, reaffirming stereotypes, and driving competently on her way to buy rice.
Type of resource
Youtube video
Know of other resources related to Discrimination & Prejudice not on our list, that should be? Email us at communications@c3health.org.
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