Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law

Cambridge University Press, 9/13/2012
EAN 9781107648180, ISBN10: 1107648181

Paperback, 284 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English

Despite cultural progress in reducing overt acts of racism, stark racial disparities continue to define American life. This book is for anyone who wonders why race still matters and is interested in what emerging social science can contribute to the discussion. The book explores how scientific evidence on the human mind might help to explain why racial equality is so elusive. This new evidence reveals how human mental machinery can be skewed by lurking stereotypes, often bending to accommodate hidden biases reinforced by years of social learning. Through the lens of these powerful and pervasive implicit racial attitudes and stereotypes, Implicit Racial Bias across the Law examines both the continued subordination of historically disadvantaged groups and the legal system's complicity in the subordination.

1. Implicit racial bias
a social science overview Justin D. Levinson, Danielle M. Young and Laurie A. Rudman
2. Property law
implicit bias and the resilience of spatial color lines Michele Wilde Anderson and Victoria C. Plaut
3. Criminal law and procedure
coloring punishment
implicit social cognition and criminal justice Charles Ogletree, Robert J. Smith and Johanna Wald
4. Torts
implicit bias inspired torts Deana Pollard Sacks
5. Employment law
implicit bias in employment litigation Nancy Gertner and Melissa Hart
6. Health law
cognitive bias in medical decision making Michele Goodwin and Naomi Duke
7. Education law
unconscious racism and the conversation about the racial achievement gap Charles R. Lawrence, III
8. Communications law
bits of bias Jerry Kang
9. Corporations
biased corporate decision making? Justin D. Levinson
10. Tax law
implicit bias and the earned income tax credit Dorothy A. Brown
11. Intellectual property
implicit racial and gender bias in right of publicity cases and intellectual property law generally Danielle M. Conway
12. Environmental law
a tale of two neighborhoods
implicit bias and environmental decision making Rachel D. Godsil
13. Federal Indian law
implicit bias against native peoples as sovereigns Susan K. Serrano and Breann Swann Nu'uhiwa
14. Capital punishment
choosing life or death (implicitly) Robert J. Smith and G. Ben Cohen
15. Reparations law
redress bias? Eric K. Yamamoto and Michele Park Sonen.