Christia Spears Brown, Ph.D., is the Lester and Helen Milich Professor of Children at Risk in the Department of Psychology, and founding Director of the Center for Equality and Social Justice, at the University of Kentucky. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and was previously faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was recently the Society for Research in Child Development Scholar-in-Residence.
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Her work focuses on the development of gender and racial/ethnic stereotypes and discrimination in children. She examines how children understand gender, ethnicity, and immigration, and how they develop stereotypes about those groups. Her work also addresses how children apply societal stereotypes to themselves and how they experience discrimination, particularly academic discrimination, sexual harassment, and gender-based teasing.
In addition to more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, she has written two books, one for an academic audience, Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence, and one for parents, Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue, and co-edited the Wiley Handbook of Group Processes in Children and Adolescents. Her forthcoming book is Unraveling Bias: How How Prejudice has Shaped Children for Generations and How We Can Break the Cycle. She regularly speaks with and consults parent groups, schools, toy and media companies, and professional organizations about reducing the impact of stereotypes, is regularly featured in national media outlets, and has served as an expert witness for the ACLU on cases of gender discrimination in schools.
To see my work about parenting without gender stereotypes, see www.drchristiabrown.com
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