Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine: 9 (Critical America) - Tapa dura

Libro 32 de 45: Critical America

Wang, Lu-in

 
9780814793794: Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine: 9 (Critical America)
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ISBN 10: 0814793797 ISBN 13: 9780814793794
Editorial: NYU Press, 2006

Sinopsis

Much as we “select” computer settings by default—reflexively, without thinking, and sometimes without realizing there are other options—we often discriminate by default as well. And just as default computer settings tend to become locked in or entrenched as the standard, discrimination by default creates a situation in which disparate outcomes are expected, accepted, and taken for granted. The killing of Amadou Diallo, racial disparities in medical care, the dominance of Whites and men in certain professions, and even the uneven media attention paid to crimes depending on their victims’ race and class, all might be cases of discrimination by, or as, default.

Wang contends that, today, most discrimination occurs by default and not design, making legal prohibitions that focus on those who discriminate out of ill will inadequate to redress the largest share of modern discrimination. She draws on social psychology to detail three ways in which unconscious assumptions can lead to discrimination, showing how they play out in a range of everyday settings. Wang then demonstrates how these dynamics interact in medical care to produce an invisible, self-fulfilling, and self-perpetuating prophecy of racial disparity. She goes on to suggest ways in which institutions and individuals might recognize, interrupt, and override the discriminatory default.

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Lu-in Wang is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She is the author of Hate Crimes Law.

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Editorial
NYU Press
Año de publicación
2006
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ISBN 10 
0814793797
ISBN 13 
9780814793794
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Número de páginas
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9780814794470: Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine: 9 (Critical America)

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