How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it

How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society — in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving.

While recognizing the power of bias is necessary to confront it, its effects need not be inevitable. Social science can help provide critical insights, tools and strategies to disrupt racial bias in all its forms. The team at SPARQ, Dr. Eberhardt’s research center at Stanford University, has curated stories, science and solutions to help people make sense of the current moment and begin to envision a path forward. Check out their resource on race, policing and social change.