Jenée Desmond-Harris at Vox on implicit racial bias: -Erika Barack Obama has been confused with a valet. Teachers have lower expectations for black and Hispanic students. Jurors are more likely to see darker-skinned defendants as guilty. Sure, you could throw all of these things under the broad category of racism. But some of these disparities are often perpetuated by people who insist that they believe with all their hearts in racial equality. Theres a term for whats happening when, despite our best intentions and without our awareness, racial stereotypes and assumptions creep into our minds and affect our actions: implicit racial bias. It seeps into just about every aspect of life, including areas like criminal justice that can have deadly consequences. Thirty years of neurology and cognitive psychology studies show that it influences the way we see and treat others, even when were absolutely determined to be, and believe we are being, fair and objective. Thats why implicit racial bias has been called the new diversity paradigm — one that recognizes the role that bias plays in the day-to-day functioning of all human beings. Heres what you need to know about how it works:
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:28:20 +0000