Exhibit Science & Society

New museum exhibit explores science of racism

‘Us and Them’ examines why prejudice persists

Science of racism exhibit in Paris

BLACK AND WHITE  A new exhibit at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris asks visitors to confront their own prejudices. This “category cylinder” highlights the psychological tendency that people have to classify other people into discrete categories.

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By Laura Spinney

- More than 2 years ago

In a famous series of experiments conducted in the 1970s, social psychologist Henri Tajfel asked how little it would take to persuade one group of people to discriminate against another.