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85 B.U. L. Rev. 155 (2005)
Batson's Blind-Spot: Unconscious Stereotyping and the Peremptory Challenge

handle is hein.journals/bulr85 and id is 167 raw text is: BA TSON'S BLIND-SPOT: UNCONSCIOUS STEREOTYPING AND THE PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE ANTONY PAGE* IN TRO DU CTION ............................................................................................... 156 I. THE BATSON APPROACH TO DISCRIMINATION AND THE PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE .................................................................. 161 A. The Peremptory Challenge Before Batson .................................. 161 B. The Batson Decision: The Three Step Process ............................ 163 C . B atson's P rogeny ......................................................................... 164 1. Expanding the Applicability of Step One .............................. 164 2. Eviscerating Step Tw o ........................................................... 166 3. Step Three: All About Credibility ......................................... 171 D . A Chorus of Criticism .................................................................. 178 II. STEREOTYPE FORMATION, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE ........ 180 A. The Roots of Stereotypes: Categorization ................................... 185 1. Stereotyping as Categorization .............................................. 187 2. Stereotyping as Schem as ....................................................... 189 3. Stereotypes: Knowledge Versus Personal Beliefs ................. 190 B . Stereotype Form ation .................................................................. 193 1. Ingroup and Outgroup Bias/Perceptual Accentuation ........... 193 2. Illusory and Other Inaccurate Correlations ........................... 199 3. Social O rigins ........................................................................ 203 4. Resistance to Change: Subtyping and Self-fulfilling Prophecies ............................................................................. 204 III. STEREOTYPE ACTIVATION: How UNCONSCIOUS STEREOTYPING INFLUENCES INFERENCE, JUDGMENT AND BEHAVIOR ........................ 207 A. Activation and Accessibility ......................................................... 210 B. Selective Search, Attention and Recall ........................................ 215 C. Interpretation and Assigned Meaning: Biased Evaluation .......... 221 1. A m biguous Events ................................................................ 222 2. D ifferential Criteria ............................................................... 224 3. A ttributing C ause .................................................................. 225 D. The Accuracy of Our Self-Awareness .......................................... 229 Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. B.Comm., McGill University; M.B.A., Simon Fraser University; J.D., Stanford Law School. I would like to thank in particular Katy Yang, esq., and John Malcolm and Professors Dan Cole, Robin Craig, Kenneth Crews, George Fisher, Nicholas Georgakopoulos and R. George Wright who commented on earlier drafts, and Ms. Adrienne Smith and the editorial team at the Boston University Law Review. In addition, thanks are due to my research assistants on this article, Kaveri Kumar and Gordon Akuwirowara. 155

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