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[Lu-in Wang] ☆ Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine (Critical America) Þ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine (Critical America) Wang then demonstrates how these dynamics interact in medical care to produce an invisible, self-fulfilling, and self-perpetuating prophecy of racial disparity. 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 def
| Title | : | Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine (Critical America) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814794475 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 187 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
Wang then demonstrates how these dynamics interact in medical care to produce an invisible, self-fulfilling, and self-perpetuating prophecy of racial disparity. 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. Much as we “select” computer settings by defaultreflexively, 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. 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. She goes on to suggest ways in which institutions and individuals might recognize, interrupt, and override the discriminatory default.
“It’s law-focused and part of an academic series, but its style and subject matter make it relevant to a broad audience.”-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“A must read for students of bias, racism, discrimination, and privilege. Balk Professor of Law and Values, University of Toledo College of Law. Wildman,professor of law and director, Santa Clara University School of Law Center for Social Justice“The book is law-focused and part of an academic series, but its style and subject matter make it relevant to a broad audience.”-Emporia Gazette“It is worth noting that one of the many positive things that this book has to recommend for itself is a very clear writing style that makes complex legal and social science concepts accessible to a wide array of audiences.”-The Law and Politics Book Review“Does a powerful job of explaining why and how discrimination sti
She is the author of Hate Crimes Law.. Lu-in Wang is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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