Breaking bias : where stereotypes and prejudices come from -- and the science-backed method to unravel them
Gupta, Anu2024
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Imagine a world without bias. A world where all human beings can truly be just as they are and unleash their full potential. Take a moment to imagine how you feel in such a world -- not what you think about it, or whether you believe it's possible, but how you feel. This is the proposition that opens Breaking Bias. It's your invitation to embark on a journey that will radically change your experience and show you how you, in turn, can help reshape our world. Drawing on two decades of original research and experience training thousands of students, Anu Gupta, a lawyer, scientist, and educator whose work focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, has written a comprehensive and compellingly readable guide for anyone who wants to understand and unlearn conscious and unconscious biases. Blending ancient Buddhist wisdom with modern scientific evidence, Anu takes us on a deep-time journey to explore human identities and identity-based biases and to recognize that breaking bias is the key to unlocking multiple crises in our world -- from racism, sexism, classism, and other '-isms' to burnout, loneliness, and climate change. Breaking Bias is one of the few books that go beyond examining the history of bias to offer actual training in how to reduce bias, and it's the only one written by an author with Anu's unique intersectional identities: a gay brown immigrant with Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu roots who is also an American lawyer and scholar of bias with lived experiences that span the globe.
Main title:
Breaking bias : where stereotypes and prejudices come from -- and the science-backed method to unravel them / by Anu Gupta ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Author:
Gupta, AnuBstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-, writer of foreword
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Carlsbad, California : Hay House LLC, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
xxxv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781401980344 (paperback)
Dewey class:
303.385
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
499979
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 303.385 BRE | Onloan - Due: 15 Jan 2025 |