Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2020-21/Evidence in racial bias in 20th century USA

Added section on sociology
Hi! I hope you are well, I've added my section on evidence in sociology, I have yet to add some of my references but thought this way you could already have a look at it for our call later today. I'm a little unsure whether the focus on evidence is strong enough here, I would be delighted to have your feedback, also, do let me know if certain things seem unclear to you! Unadorablemensonge (discuss • contribs) 10:42, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Page setup
Do we need to keep the link at the top of the page? The one that guides you back to the general page of issues in interdisciplinarity?Unadorablemensonge (discuss • contribs) 10:56, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Activity log
Zoom meeting 20/11/20 - I introduced the idea of looking at false accusations of rape/sexual harassment and exploring the conflict between disciplines of biology and psychology. Originally, the group was going in the direction of literature but after discussion we found more possibility in looking at a specific case of false rape accusation. Olivia suggested we look into the case of a Polish man who served 25 years for rape and murder of a 15 year old and I suggested the Central Park 5 case. We decided to follow the Central Park 5 case as it had more mainstream coverage and we would be able to find better facts and evidence to support our arguments. Someone also suggested we look at Racial Studies and Media Studies as potential disciplines which could have impacted the case since all the boys were young, black men and the media uses techniques to sway the public opinion. We decided that we would all carry out research into the different disciplines and the case so that we each have an understanding of the linkages and conflicts between disciplines rather than focusing and specialising so early into the assignment. We have created a Google Docs to collaborate on our research and will consolidate and discuss our findings at our meeting next Thursday Driedmangoes (discuss • contribs) 14:15, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Zoom meeting 27/11/20- We decided that the Central Park case was not a very good idea, so we brainstormed and changed the subject to "Evidence on racial bias in the 20th century USA". We want to discuss how despite concrete biological evidence institutional racism was still implemented. We'd like to look for evidence in different disciplines such as psychology, biology, law, sociology (institutional structure). We had some trouble with history though, as we are having a historical approach but cannot really include history as a discipline in which evidence is found. We are going to brainstorm individually and each make a plan that we'll share with each other on Monday. Empereurthepug (discuss • contribs) 12:06, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Zoom meeting 1/12/20 - Each of us brought up different ideas of how to structure the page and what exactly we thought should be the focus of the page. After discussing it for a while we agreed we shouldn't look only at racial bias (which is quite specific to psychology) but rather at inequality in general. We also agreed to look at a specific area of racial inequality: education. This would narrow down the field of research and enable us to have a more comprehensive and thoughtful wikibooks chapter. Moving away from the vastness of racial inequality in general would indeed enable us to uncover some specific and insightful information. Still, we had doubts about where there would be points of tension, and were not entirely convinced we were going in the right direction. We wrote to our seminar leader, Hélène who was ever so kind to arrange a meeting with us the very next day! Unadorablemensonge (discuss • contribs) 10:56, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Zoom meeting 2/12/20 - Hélène was super helpful in aswering the questions we had and guiding us. We felt encouraged and agreed each of us would do research and attempt to define which disciplines seemed most relevant to our issue. Unadorablemensonge (discuss • contribs) 10:56, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Zoom meeting 4/12/20 - Today, each of us chose which discipline we would focus on. Oliwia and Olivia are working on evidence in psychology, Iman is looking more at Urban Geography or Economics while I will be researching evidence in Sociology. We agreed to publish draft articles by Monday which we would then discuss together. Unadorablemensonge (discuss • contribs)