 | Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice Subjects: Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Discrimination in justice administration -- United States; Racism -- Psychological aspects; Racism -- United States; Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States; 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. Jonathan Kahn is the James E. Kelley Chair in Tort Law and professor of law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. He is also the author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age (Columbia, 2013). |
