Actively Addressing Systemic Racism Using a Behavioral Community Approach
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Abstract Recent police brutality and related violence against Black people, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, has further evidenced disproportionate impact of systemic racism in our institutions across society. In United States, alarming mortality rates for people due to deaths are clear demonstrations inequities within a long history disparate outcomes. understanding racism, it is essential consider how embedded society socio-ecological levels. The Social-Ecological Model (SEM) used examine conditions environment that maintain including field discipline. A behavioral-community approach examining aids determining points intervention multiple ecological levels may contribute behavior change, behaviorists. science well-suited help contingencies governing behaviors systems, which pivotal addressing operant influence long-term change. This paper calls on behavioral community address environments systems more equitable community. Systemic context anti-Blackness, examined by considering change strategies can be supported behaviorists Tools collaborative action provided support demonstrating skills needed continuum from allyship anti-racism actively racism.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Behavior and Social Issues
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1064-9506', '2376-6786']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-022-00101-6