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Pedersen, A., Dunn, K. (2009, September). The
Challenging Racism Project. Amnesty
International

• Team
• Social Geographers (Dunn Forrest)
• Social Epidemiologist (Paradies)
• Community Psychologist (Pedersen)
• Social Scientist (Guerin)
• Social Worker (Babacan)
• Thanks to James Forrest and Therese Kenna for
  providing the map and graphs

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Racism in Australia Everyday experiences of
racism 1 high incidence 8 low
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What to do?

• Prejudice and racism are multi-faceted
  structural, cultural, inter-personal, and
  personal
• An anti-prejudice intervention is one
  personal/inter-personal way forward. The
  Challenging Racism Project looks at the
  individual within his or her context. The
  geographical data tells us what is happening
  within each location psychology tells us what
  strategies might be appropriate within that
  location
• Three lots of strategies
• Strategies that should be used as a matter of
  course e.g., accurate information. Strategists
  may attempt to address false beliefs such as
  being Indigenous entitles you to more social
  security benefits.
• Strategies that need to be tailored on location
  e.g., white privilege.
• Strategies for background use only (e.g.,
  personality)

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Conclusions/Recommendations

• Context matters
• This type of work needs to be nationally endorsed
• Structural, cultural, inter-personal, and
  personal factors all need to be addressed
• Different disciplines can, and should, work
  together
• Individuals can and often do - create a
  critical mass forcing structural change
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and
  committed citizens can change the world. Indeed
  it is the only thing that ever does (Margaret
  Mead)