Inclusivity Spotlight: “Churn”: Life in a Diverse Society and How to Make it Work
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Speaker: Claude Steele, Stanford University
Moderator: Sheri J. Mizumori, University of Washington
Churn is the mental agitation and physical stress people can experience in diverse settings. This stress can affect our ability to form successfully diverse communities in our society and institutions. The threat begins with knowledge that virtually everyone has: the stereotypes about the major identities in our society. When we’re in situations where stereotypes might arise, this knowledge poses a threat that we could be judged and treated according to those stereotypes. If the situation was important to us, we become worrisomely vigilant. Churn is that worrisome vigilance.
This Inclusivity Spotlight does not explore how we perform under the weight of that vigilance. Instead, Steele covers our ability to get along with each other under its weight, across identity divides, in diverse settings. He also explores how to reduce churn and enable us to form strong communities despite the divides that our history and culture have left us with. Trust-building strategies are possibly an effect way to reduce human prejudice and its effect in our lives and our churn with each other. The Civil Rights era launched our national commitment to a fully integrated society: Integration 1.0. This body of work, benefitting from the 65 or so years since that commitment, asks how we can make it work better. It’s in search of integration 2.0.
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