Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America

Name: Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America
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ISBN: 9780814706701

ISBN-10: 0814706703

ISBN-13: 9780814706701

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jody David Armour

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[C]ommendable in important respects. [Armour] points out problems in the theory of rational racial discrimination that many of its proponents ignore or overlook.--Randall Kennedy, Los Angeles Times Book Review"A patient meditation."--The Nation"A crucial book, at a critical time, just as white America is gradually coming to understand the hidden travails of African American life."--Bookwatch"Skillfully drawing on a wide range of referents from Greek mythology to Thomas Byes, the father of statistics, Armour plumbs our racial psychology and in the process explores the racialized nature of our daily life and our legal system."--Norfolk Virginia Journal and GuideTackling the ugly secret of…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jody David Armour is Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Southern California.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "Rational" Discrimination and the Black Tax



The "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



The "Intelligent Bayesian": Reckoning with Rational Discrimination


Why Rational Discrimination Is Not Reasonable


Race and the Subversion of Rationality



The "Involuntary Negrophobe"


The 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


The 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


Conclusion


Notes


Index