Negrophobia and reasonable racism : the hidden costs of being Black in America / Jody David Armour.
Jody Armour believes that, despite the fact that most whites today are racially well intentioned, race-based mistrust and misunderstanding pose one of the greatest obstacles to racial harmony in contemporary America. Beset by media images of black criminality, whites consistently cite statistics, tr...
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New York University Press,
©1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "Rational" Discrimination and the Black Tax
- Ch. 1. The "Reasonable Racist": A Slippery Oxymoron
- Ch. 2. The "Intelligent Bayesian": Reckoning with Rational Discrimination
- Ch. 3. The "Involuntary Negrophobe"
- Ch. 4. Of Mice and Men: Equal Protection and Unconscious Bias
- Ch. 5. Blame and Punishment: Narrative, Perspective, Scapegoats, and Demons
- Ch. 6. Repealing the Black Tax: Breaking the Discrimination Habit.