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Race on the brain : what implicit bias gets wrong about the struggle for racial justice / Jonathan Kahn.

By: Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780231184243 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.3/400973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9950 .K34 2017
Contents:
Introduction: rethinking implicit bias-the limits to science as a tool of racial justice -- Defining and measuring implicit bias -- The uptake of ISC by the legal academy -- Accepting conservative frames: time, color-blindness, diversity, and intent -- Behavioral realism in action -- Deracinating the legal subject -- Obscuring power -- Recreational anti-racism and the power of positive nudging -- Seeking a technical fix to racism -- Biologizing racism: the ultimate technical fix -- Conclusion: contesting the common sense of racism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: rethinking implicit bias-the limits to science as a tool of racial justice -- Defining and measuring implicit bias -- The uptake of ISC by the legal academy -- Accepting conservative frames: time, color-blindness, diversity, and intent -- Behavioral realism in action -- Deracinating the legal subject -- Obscuring power -- Recreational anti-racism and the power of positive nudging -- Seeking a technical fix to racism -- Biologizing racism: the ultimate technical fix -- Conclusion: contesting the common sense of racism.

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