Folks are talking about something called the "Implicit Association Test," or IAT. The discussion I saw on television focused only on how Blacks, whites and Asians - in the U.S. I think? - perceived Blacks and whites. There seems to have been no test or discussion of how the same groups perceive Asians, compared to their perceptions of, say, ("non-Hispanic") whites compared to American Indians, or Latinos/Hispanics who are people of color (which seems the vast majority of Latinas/os. I'd like to address this when I have more information and time. The IAT also raises issues of the transmission and 'contagiousness' of perceptions including some perceptions of "race" as well as how perceptions - positive and negative - spread and are spread deliberately, and what we can do about this when we take responsibility and choose to change images we're promoting.
Veteran photographer Chester Higgins' book of images, Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging
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