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Brainwaves Video Anthology
Akash Patel - Global Citizenship
Akash Patel began his teaching career in very small rural communities in Oklahoma where people had never seen or met “a brown Indian guy who spoke five languages and had traveled to over 50 countries”. He used his travel experiences...
Mr. Beat
How to End Racism
How do we end racism? I think I have a solution, and it first begins with knowing what the actual definitions of "racism" and "race" are. 1) Acknowledge race has no genetic basis, and was a term invented by one group people to justify...
Wonderscape
Social Studies Kids: Cultural Diversity
This video explores the importance of cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It discusses the definition of culture, the benefits of embracing diverse perspectives, and the barriers to multiculturalism. It also provides suggestions for...
Seven Dimensions
Combating Prejudice and Discrimination in the Workplace
This video discusses the topics of prejudice and discrimination in the workplace. It explores the harmful effects of prejudging others based on appearances and the importance of promoting diversity, empathy, and open communication in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Susan T. Fiske - Stereotyping and Prejudice
Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power. We begin with the premise that people easily...
Amor Sciendi
Every Brush Stroke a Testimony
The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner is a vindication of culture and art in an oppressed population.
The March of Time
1944: BOSTON: Governor's Committee for Racial and Religious Understanding meeting. CU Rabbi Liebman. Dr. Alport speaking about prejudice, no child is ever born with prejudice...' VS Meeting.
MOT 1944: BOSTON: Governor's Committee for Racial and Religious Understanding meeting. CU Rabbi Liebman. Dr. Alport speaking about prejudice, no child is ever born with prejudice...' VS Meeting.
Seven Dimensions
Breaking Stereotypes: Challenging Prejudice and Discrimination in the Workplace
This video discusses the issue of stereotyping and its negative impact on individuals and society. It emphasizes the importance of avoiding preconceived judgments and getting to know people based on their behavior rather than...
TED-Ed
There's No Shame in Taking Care of Your Mental Health
Stigma, shame, silence. A short, powerful video address why people don't take care of and seek help for their mental health and offers suggestions for what can be done.
PBS
The Civil Rights Landscape Today for People of Color
Do all American children have the same chance of getting on the "school-to-career path" or the "school to prison pipeline"? The narrator of a short video discusses the role racial and economic inequalities play in lives of people of color.
PBS
Concepts Unwrapped: Conformity Bias
Conformity bias is the focus of a short video that acknowledges the difficulty of not going along with the crowd. In the video, students share their experiences and then viewers examine a case study of how conformity bias played a part...
PBS
How Unconscious Race Bias Affects Millennials
While millennials may consider themselves less prejudiced than previous generations, an interview with a scientist researching racial bias suggests that may not be the case. The short video demonstrates just how unconscious racial bias...
PBS
Microaggressions in the Classroom
Because microaggression can be so subtle learning how to identify it and respond to it can be a challenge. Two videos from a PBS series provide examples of this form of bias and offer suggestions for how to respond in productive ways.
PBS
Microassaults, Microinsults, and Microinvalidations
Types of microaggressions are discussion in three short PBS videos: microassaults (overt intentional discrimination), microinsults, and microinvalidations. The terms are defined and examples are provided that illustrate each type of...
PBS
Overview for Approaching Ethical Issues
Discussing ethical issues can be problematic. Before beginning any discussion of ethical issues and biases, show this series of videos that lays the groundwork by providing an overview of the terminology needed and examples of the terms...
PBS
Concepts Unwrapped: Implicit Bias
Bias can be explicit or implicit, with implicit bias being far more subtle. A PBS video identifies the differences between these biases and the controversy surrounding the discussion of implicit bias.
The School of Life
Philosophy - Jacques Derrida
Deconstruction, aporia, and logocentrism. Three terms used by Jacques Derrida to describe his key ideas, marked a pivotal change in philosophic thinking. Introduce viewers to Derrida with a short video that deconstructs his rejection of...
Crash Course
Do the Right Thing
Did Mookie do the right thing? Spike Lee's film Do The Right Thing, which discusses race violence and community, leaves viewers to decide. The cogent analysis of a film criticism video examines not only Lee's filmmaking techniques...
Macat
An Introduction to Gordon Allport’s The Nature of Prejudice
According to Gordon Allport, stereotypes are ingrained in the human brain as a way to reach quick conclusions. His 1979 text The Nature of Prejudice explains that people fill in the gaps of their knowledge with the clues around...
Macat
An Introduction to Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks
Imagine being forced to assimilate: giving up your language and culture, adopting the traditions of your oppressors. Frantz Fanon's study of colonial domination is the focus of a short video that introduces viewers to the key ideas in...
Macat
An Introduction to Edward Said's Orientalism
Heathens! Barbarians! Savages! When encountering a culture vastly different from their own, explorers often viewed the activities and traditions of a society new to them through a lens colored by their own values and experiences....
TED-Ed
The Exceptional Life of Benjamin Banneker
Introduce your class to Benjamin Banneker, self-taught mathematician and scientist, with a short video that details some of the many accomplishments of the son of freed slaves and contemporary of Thomas Jefferson.
SciShow
Origins of Intolerance
Is the Earth going to be hit by a giant asteroid? An earth science video begins with an update on various topics including volcanoes, asteroids, and ancient art. Then it briefly discusses the biological origins of intolerance.
PBS
Politics of a Movement in a Segregated Society | Carrie Chapman Catt
The entire text of the 19th amendment is only two sentences long. It declares that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." However, the passing of the...