Stanford Social Psychologist on How White Allies Should Respond To Racism
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🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 1:13.9 | Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor and Social Psychologist Brian Lowry is going to be joining us. |
| 1:20.0 | He studies the psychology of racial privilege. |
| 1:22.9 | Undergirding his work is a notion that although many people support the ideal of a fair and just society, |
| 1:28.1 | they sometimes end up unconsciously reinforcing inequality. And in a Washington Post opinion piece |
| 1:33.5 | that appeared last month, Lowry describes some of the racism he experienced personally, |
| 1:38.3 | and he calls upon white Americans to engage in a proactive way to address inequality. He joins us now to discuss his research and the article, and welcome Brian Lowry. |
| 1:48.3 | Thanks for having you, Michael. |
| 1:49.8 | Glad to have you. |
| 1:50.6 | And I should mention Brian Lowry is professor of organizational behavior and senior associate dean |
| 1:55.2 | for academic affairs at Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
| 1:58.3 | And we'll talk about the link to the Washington Post piece, which by the way, the opinion piece, well, certainly kudos on that. It has gotten a good deal |
| 2:07.0 | of attention deservedly. And I wanted to sort of get to the heart of it. You're sort of saying a lot |
| 2:12.8 | of white friends were asking you, what can they do? How are you? Particularly how are you in the wake of |
| 2:17.4 | all this |
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