Unraveling Bias

”“”[Brown] offers pragmatic advice for teachers on how to stand up for diversity and inclusiveness in the classroom. Beyond inspiring individual action, she also emphasizes the importance of changing cultures, systems, and policies that perpetuate biases and maintain inequities.“”—San Francisco Book Review”“Timely, informative, thought-provoking, inspirationally motivating.””—Midwest Book Review”“In this enlightening book, Dr. Christia Spears Brown explains very clearly how we develop biases as children and how those biases get reinforced over time by policies and institutions. Best of all, Unraveling Bias offers actionable steps that parents, educators, and policymakers can take to eradicate bias and discrimination from our society.”” —Lara S. Kaufmann, director of public policy at Girls Inc. “”Unraveling Bias is truly remarkable, timely, and incredibly important. This is a book that parents, educators, and policymakers will highlight, dog-ear, and refer back to time and time again. I wish it had existed years ago, but I’m so grateful to have it now!“” —Dolly Chugh, author of The Person You Mean to Be ““This book is crucial for our times, not just because it synthesizes the relevant research, but because it provides the pathways for families, schools, and communities to unravel and break the cycle of bias.”” —Stephen T. Russell, Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development at the University of Texas at Austin ““Dr. Christia Spears Brown has given us an invaluable resource with her deeply researched book about how bias develops, how it affects our children, and how we can successfully fight it. This should be required reading for every American.”” —Melinda Wenner Moyer, author of How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes ““With a compassionate voice, ample research evidence, quotes from youths and parents, and insights from legal scholars and the courts, Dr. Christia Spears Brown charts pathways for breaking down entrenched patterns of discrimination and opening up new conversations about the pervasiveness and effects of bias in our society.”” —Linda R. Tropp, PhD, professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst“

Christia Spears Brown, PhD, is a Professor of Developmental Psychology, and the Director of the Center for Equality and Social Justice, at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on children’s experiences with ethic, racial, and gender discrimination and stereotypes and how racism and sexism impacts the academic, social, and psychological lives of children and teens. In addition to award-winning scientific research articles, chapters, and academic books, and numerous teaching awards, she is the author of Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue: How to Raise Children Free of Gender Stereotypes. She was the 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Scholar-in-Residence. She regularly speaks with and consults parent groups, schools and teachers, toy and media companies, and businesses about reducing the impact of stereotypes, is regularly featured in international media outlets, and has served as an expert witness for the ACLU on cases of gender discrimination in schools.

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