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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
| Title | Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do |
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| Date | 2025-04-19 14:16:37 |
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Desciption
"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review"Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just MercyFrom one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our timeHow do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society—in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving. Read more
Review
This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the roots of racial bias and how to combat it in ourselves and others. Eberhardt's research is thorough and readily accessible, and through exquisite storytelling, she educates the reader about why racial bias still persists in our society, focusing on her work with police departments efforts' to reduce racial profiling. I read this book after a visit to the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama and was especially moved by her chapter on Higher Learning (working at UC Berkeley) and how the riots at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville affected the people and communities in that area of the South.
