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Teaching students about stigmatization through first-hand experience: The gay pride pin experiment
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Rabow, Jerome, Jill Stein, and Terri Conley. 2010. “Teaching Students about Stigmatization through First-Hand Experience: The Gay Pride Pin Experiment”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/teaching-students-about-stigmatization-through.

Abstract

In this paper we examine what a group of college students experienced when they were asked to wear a pink triangle pin1 as a part of a class experiment. The pink triangle symbol, once used to identify homosexual men in concentration camps during the Holocaust, has become a modern symbol embraced by the gay community as a display of social and political...

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Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Class Level(s):
College 300

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