Exploring the Racial Divide

Human-Computer Interaction Closes the Digital Divide: A multicultural, intergenerational ICT case study

Ethnic and racial tensions are aggravated by social inequities. The media unwittingly feeds this dilema. Look at how often we are directed to the internet for further information. While exploring the internet may be easier for some computer users, others demonstrate a complete avoidance for this type of knowledge exchange. Misunderstandings that occur between cultural communities may be exacerb...

Bridging the Racial Divide Through Cross- Racial Dialogue: Lessons and Reflections from My Experience as a Facilitator

The Myth of Aryan Invasions of India

The often perceived and frequently quoted racial division in India between the fairer Aryan North and the darker Dravidian South is pernicious and dangerous. The British gave currency to this view of racial divide in India. It was part of their “divide and rule” strategy. The Northern people in India got especially sucked into this interpretation of history because it made the “Aryan” northerne...

Explaining dehumanization among children: the interspecies model of prejudice.

Although many theoretical approaches have emerged to explain prejudices expressed by children, none incorporate outgroup dehumanization, a key predictor of prejudice among adults. According to the Interspecies Model of Prejudice, beliefs in the human-animal divide facilitate outgroup prejudice through fostering animalistic dehumanization (Costello & Hodson, 2010). In the present investigation, ...

Race and the Digital Divide

In recent years, a plethora of public and private programs in the United States have been created to close the “Digital Divide.” Interestingly, however, we know very little about the underlying causes of racial differences in rates of computer and Internet access. In this paper, I use data from the Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the August 2000 Current Population Survey (CPS) to explor...