The University of Texas at Austin welcomed over 200 new faculty members this year, coming to Austin from all over the world and bringing expertise across
Dr. Gabriela Livas Stein, professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro, will discuss the impact of discrimination against Latinx youth at Westminster College’s 2022 Psychology and Neuroscience Colloquium from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center.
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Picture books can be a powerful way to teach kids about the importance of representation and to steep them in diversity from a very young age.
What children are exposed to early on shapes them forever, and that’s certainly true when it comes to diversity and acceptance. At just 6 months old, for example, babies are able to recognize race-based differences. Racial bias can set in once they’re 2. And by the time they’re tweens, many of those biases and beliefs have become “set,” the American Academy of Pediatrics warns.
So parents basically have a decade-ish to fundamentally influence how their children view and value diversity, while living within a broader system in which inequality is rampant. It’s quite a task.