Race on the Brain - What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice

Klappentext Jonathan Kahn argues that an uncritical embrace of implicit bias! to the exclusion of power relations and structural racism! undermines wider civic responsibility for addressing racial inequality by turning it over to experts. Race on the Brain challenges us to engage more democratically in the difficult task of promoting racial justice.

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• Authors: Jonathan Kahn, Kahn Jonathan
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780231184243
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18424-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Civil rights & citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Civics and citizenship, Social discrimination and social justice