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Cognitive dissonance and social bias

April 14, 2016April 14, 2016 Cate Hundleby

Social biases can be extremely difficult to observe in oneself, especially for those of us committed to social equality. However, once we come to accept how commonplace they are  and get past being ashamed of them, we can begin to learn from the glimpses we get into our implicit associations.

Today for the first time I gave the finger to a woman in a hijab. I also yelled “you fuck off!” as she had given me the finger first. I had exclaimed about my right of way as a pedestrian when the (male) driver of the minivan she was in cut me off crossing the street. The most interesting thing about this for me is watching my mind try to negotiate the cognitive dissonance of swearing at strangers combined with symbols of religious or at least cultural fidelity. I was shocked at her behaviour especially because of the hijab, I think. Had it been a 20 year old man I’d have felt somewhat different I think, not more or less angry but less betrayed.

Clearly I will get over it, but it also brings home to me how wearing a hijab can make people feel — and perhaps actually become — safer from strangers’ hostility. The cognitive dissonance I experienced would seem to be at last partly due to my sense of respect for the hijab.

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At the Risk of Sounding Angry: On Melissa Harris-Perry’s Eloquent Rage

September 9, 2012November 4, 2012 Cate Hundleby

Argumentation schemes (Walton) show the lie in the “disavowal of emotion as a legitimate form of expressing thought,” but there has been little attention yet to how constructive anger can be in argumentation and in pedagogy.

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The internets were all abuzz over the weekend sharing clips of our collective Black feminist shero Melissa Harris-Perry’s Saturday morning show. During the show, she lost her cool with panelist Monica Mehta, a conservative financial expert, who represented every unthoughtful mythic thing that I’ve come to believe a person has to believe in order to be a member of today’s racist Republican Party.

After I posted the clip to my FB page, a former student of mine, simply commented that this was an example of “eloquent rage.” She knew I would get the reference, because the first time she ever used it was in reference to me, and my impassioned style of teaching students about the politics of race, class, and gender. My first reaction to being characterized in this way was denial. “I’m not angry,” I told her. “I’m passionate.” And then she looked at me with a tell-tale…

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