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Aasif Mandvi is an Indian-American actor-comedian who co-stars in The Internship, where, yes, he has an Indian accent. (Photo credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

Snake-charming into Hollywood

June 7, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Actor/comedian Aasif Mandvi, an Indian American (though not a Sikh), talks about the stereotypical roles he was forced to accede in order to make his way in Hollywood: I got a callback, and my agent called to ask if I owned a turban. I said — a little defensively, I admit — that if I owned a turban, I would probably have worn it; it’s not something you leave home without. She laughed, saying, “Yeah, that makes sense — but […]

Categories: Profiles, TV/Movies • Tags: Aasif Mandvi, Hollywood, stereotypes

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Cover of The Blind Spot. (source: Blind Spot website)

Identifying and challenging our invisible prejudices

March 7, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Psychologists Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University and Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington are authors of the book The Blind Spot, which examines the existence of implicit biases and prejudices that we often carry, of which we are not even aware: “Blindspot” is a metaphor to capture that portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. The authors use it to ask about the extent to which social groups – without our awareness or conscious control – shape our […]

Categories: Reports/Studies • Tags: Anthony Greenwald, Blindspot, Implicit Association Test, Mahzarin Banaji, Prejudice, stereotypes

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