The Impact of Color-Blind Racism

· Define color-blind racism, microinvalidation, microaggression that includes current media examples, and the cultures that utilize these concepts.

· Describe three ways that microaffirmations, empathy, altruism, and compassion were used by someone within the human service professions to reduce cultural bias and color-blind racism.

· Identify the impact of color-blind racism in the media that can make you and people of color feel uncomfortable.

· Discuss the ways that color-blind racism can be perceived as racial denial.

· Identify three subcultures that were impacted by lifelong color-blind racism.

· Define solutions that can help communities reduce the negative impact of color-blind racism in the human service professions.

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