Discrimination by Default : How Racism Becomes Routine / Lu-in Wang.
Wang, Lu-in, author.
2006
KF4755 .W36 2008
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Title Discrimination by Default : How Racism Becomes Routine / Lu-in Wang.
Author Wang, Lu-in, author.
ISBN 9780814784679
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814784679.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2006]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
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Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814784679.001.0001 doi
Call Number KF4755 .W36 2008
Summary 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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Series Critical America ; ; 9
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Discrimination by Default, Discrimination as Default
2. Situational Racism
3. Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes
4. Failures of Imagination
5. Discrimination by and as Default in Medical Care
6. Overriding the Default
Notes
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