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Tags “The Id the Ego and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism”

Tag: “The Id the Ego and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism”

Trayvon Martin and implicit bias

As we continue to struggle with the verdict in this murder case – as the only juror of color states that George Zimmerman “got away with murder” and as the nation lurches through yet another tragic episode that forces us to deal with our racial legacy – new ways of viewing race are surfacing. Social scientists have been studying these issues for decades. Unconscious bias. Implicit bias.