Jordan Davis and Michael Dunn

EmilyBlakeslee — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 03:33:58 +0000

For our contemporary racism class, we read an essay by social psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt. The essay summarized her and her colleagues’ work on the cognitive associations we make about Black people and crime. For me, the findings were like a knife in the gut: we have unconscious prejudices that we often aren’t aware of, that can have dire consequences. In one study, participants were either unconsciously primed to think about crime or received no ...

Michael Dunn – Contemporary Racism

Jordan Davis and Michael Dunn