Tens of thousands of federal tax dollars are flowing to New York University to uncover why kids allegedly “favor Whiteness and maleness over other identities,” official data show.
The three-year project, titled “Societal assumptions regarding typical personhood and their effects on reasoning development,” will obtain a total of $40,391 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Researchers have until January 2025 to conclude the study, which began this February, to seek out what authors say could be developmental processes that drive children to believe that “White males represent the default person.”
The project posits that this belief is a pattern “rooted in the ideologies of androcentrism (centering the experiences of men) and ethnocentrism (centering the experiences of white people) prevalent in the United States.”…