Art review Sounding Black Flashcards
Main previous stuff
racial phenotypes align with racial stereotypes of criminality and is known to influence black people in the legal system.
Also known, you can tell someones background by their langauge/dialect
Gap to be addressed
This does not account for other factors of racial perception like language
Study contributions
Do language variations align w racial stereotypes? Can they also align with racial phenotype bias?
Qualitative/quantitative
quantitative
Materials 1
20 recordings of 14 Black N American and 6 Brit from yt
Experimental Procedure 1
75 ppl listened to 10 recordings and determined race, nationality, age, and attractiveness. Then, how stereotypical the voice was for the race. Lastly, they described their own dialect
Controls 1
Subjects from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
US-based workers, complete 100 Human Intelligence Tasks (HIT) with 98% approval rating.
30 adjectives were given for subjects to describe recording
attractiveness on 7pt likert type scale
familiarity on 5pt likert type scale
Limits 1
recordings from YT, some nationalities are unclear (US-Canadian mix)
Findings 1
Statistical
Nationality was largely correct
2/3s all recordings black
UK recordings 50/50
US recordings 70/30
small correlation between age and stereotypical
>attractive= < stereotype
Main takeaways 1
black sounding= more stereotype adjectives
US black = more stereotype than other nationalities
directions for future studies? 1
black stereotypes to nonblacks might be bc of prejudice against nonstandard dialects of yt ppl (Southern accent)
Materials 2
24 black faces, 12 black voice recordings reading 2 standard passages
Experimental procedure 2
consenting participants listened to recordings and chose between high and low phenotypical faces to match and indicated their confidence in each match
Controls 2
voice recordings analyzed to match face ages
asked for picture’s race- manipulation check
Limits 2
