Kahn J. Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice

Columbia University Press, 2018. — 303 p.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.Preface
Introduction: Rethinking Implicit Bias—the Limits to Science as a Tool of Racial Justice
Defining and Measuring Implicit Bias
The Uptake of Implicit Social Cognition by the Legal Academy
Accepting Conservative Frames: Time, Color Blindness, Diversity, and Intent
Behavioral Realism in Action
Deracinating the Legal Subject
Obscuring Power
Recreational Antiracism and the Power of Positive Nudging
Seeking A Technical Fix to Racism
Biologizing Racism: The Ultimate Technical Fix
Conclusion: Contesting the Common Sense of Racism
Notes
Index