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58 Emory L.J. 1053 (2008-2009)
(How) Does Unconscious Bias Matter: law, Politics, and Racial Inequality

handle is hein.journals/emlj58 and id is 1065 raw text is: EMORY LAW JOURNAL Volume 58 2009 Number 5 ARTICLES (HOW) DOES UNCONSCIOUS BIAS MATTER?: LAW, POLITICS, AND RACIAL INEQUALITY Ralph Richard Banks* Richard Thompson Ford* ABSTRACT During the past several years, psychological research on unconscious racial bias has grabbed headlines, as well as the attention of legal scholars. The most well-known test of unconscious bias is the Implicit Association Test (IAT), a sophisticated and methodologically rigorous computer-administered measure that has been taken by millions of people and featured in major media. Its proponents contend that the IAT reveals widespread unconscious bias against African Americans, even among individuals who believe themselves to be free of racial bias. In fact, however, the findings of the IAT are ambiguous. The test could just as plausibly be thought to measure racial bias that is simply covert, known to oneself yet intentionally concealed from researchers. On this interpretation, the IAT reveals not that individuals are more biased than they realize, but that they are more biased than they want others to know. The characterization of Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School.

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