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Author Armour, Jody David.

Title Negrophobia and reasonable racism : the hidden costs of being Black in America / Jody David Armour.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 204 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical America
Critical America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-200) and index.
Contents Introduction: "Rational" Discrimination and the Black Tax -- "Reasonable Racist": A Slippery Oxymoron -- How We Know What We Know: The Typical, the Reasonable, and the Accurate -- Why We Blame Whom We Blame: The Typical, the Reasonable, and the Damnable -- "Intelligent Bayesian": Reckoning with Rational Discrimination -- Why Rational Discrimination Is Not Reasonable -- Race and the Subversion of Rationality -- "Involuntary Negrophobe" -- Involuntary Negrophobe and Dueling Conceptions of Law -- Of Mice and Men: Equal Protection and Unconscious Bias -- Private Bias and Equal Protection -- Restructuring the Maze to Serve Justice -- Blame and Punishment: Narrative, Perspective, Scapegoats, and Demons -- Framing the Narrative Broadly in Women's Self-Defense Work -- Narrative, Consent, and Blame -- Fundamental Fault Line: Determinism versus Antideterminism -- "Disadvantaged Social Background" -- Opponents Grasp at Straws -- Ideological Agendas -- Repealing the Black Tax: Breaking the Discrimination Habit -- Hypocritical Racists and Aversive Racists -- Proving Ubiquitous Unconscious Bias -- Combating Unconscious Discrimination in the Courtroom.
Summary Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.
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Language English.
Subject Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Racism -- United States.
Racism.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Armour, Jody David. Negrophobia and reasonable racism. New York : New York University Press, ©1997 0814706401 (DLC) 96051306 (OCoLC)36138339
ISBN 0585028273 (electronic book)
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