African American mothers have always noticed racial bias shown towards their children in even the slightest manner, but now there is even more research proving the existence of unconscious racial bias. A psychology professor at Standford University, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, was named a MacArthur Genius on Wednesday for her findings on the way we visually process race. Eberhardt is a social psychologist deeply analyzing the the intersections of race and crime.
Eberhardt was able to prove that people are more likely to spot guns and other crime weapons after viewing a series of African American faces.
"It's almost as though blackness is so associated with crime that you're ready to pick out these crime objects out of the environment than if you're exposed to a white face," she said in her interview with the MacArthur Foundation.
Eberhardt will receive $625,000 grant to further her research of unconscious racial bias which is already making waves in the criminal justice sector. The psych professor found that death row defendants that looked "stereotypically black" were twice as likely to receive the a death penalty. She is working with police forces to help rectify the necessary changes in improving the landscape for minorities.
With the number of police brutality increasing weekly, and often daily we are happy to see this work taking place.
Watch Eberhadt's video as she discusses her studies in race and inequality.
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