During the last year of my doctoral program, I spent several weeks in a Rhode Island high school, talking to students who were learning to recognize stereotypes in popular culture. Most of my focus group participants clearly enjoyed classes where they were analyzing magazines and animated films. However, sometimes they said things that left me confused. These young people were worried about stereotypes and at the same time emotionally attached to them. What’s more, they seemed to be unaware of this inconsistency. In my dissertation, I decided to call this phenomenon “half-changed minds”...
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