Overview
Examine the four statements below. Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt has made each with regard to her book and the summary of research contianed in it. Relying on class lectures posted on Canvas and her book Biased choose one or a combination of two or more statements as the theme of your essay. In this essay, you should first summarize her argument or thesis, next describe the empirical studies she uses to verify her points, then, finally, come to a conclusion about the research itself, and her ideas concerning bias.
Make sure to cite sources!!
1. Cross race effect. “There is a phenomenon known as the Cross Race Effect (or "other-race effect") — that's the tendency for people across all races to be better at recognizing faces of their own race than people of other races. Once you put a face in a category then that can also trigger your beliefs and feelings about the people who are in that category. And then that can lead you to treat them differently.”
2. “Bias is not a trait but a state. So, some situations make us more vulnerable to bias than others. And the more we understand this, the more powerful we are because then the issue is trying to figure out — what are the situations where bias is more likely to come up? — and to figure out how to avoid those situations, or how to brace yourself, or how to slow down in those situations.”
3. “We’re kind of limited, you know, to the extent that we can actually rid ourselves of bias. I don't even know if that's a goal that is achievable. People always want to know how we can get over bias. And I understand that. But bias is not something we cure, it's something we manage. There's no magical moment where bias just ends and we never have to deal with it again.”
4. “It’s hard to teach people to be colorblind in a world that's not. Everything from birth emphasizes racial divides, from where we live to where we attend school, to where we work, how much money we make, to what ailments we face, to how we die. And race not only affects how we see people, it's affecting how we see places how we see things. It's affecting how we see institutions and policies — it's really shaping our vision of the world."