The work of psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University, focuses on unconscious biases and their social consequences. Banaji heads the Project Implicit research group at Harvard and helps to maintain an online test—the Implicit Association Test (IAT)—which is designed to make people more aware of their unconscious biases. Click here to take the IAT.
Racism
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December 15, 2010
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November 8, 2010
Ernie Lepore’s “Speech and Harm,” an opinion piece on the New York Times website, examines the power of slurs.
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October 9, 2010
"A draft of the law that first established discriminatory practices aimed at Jews under the Vichy government includes notes made by Marshal Pétain."
—New York TimesContinuing discussion over the new evidence suggests the challenges societies face in coming to terms with their pasts. In Pétain's case, some had argued that the wartime leader was a feeble man, easily manipulated by the Nazis after their conquest of France.
“We used to say that Pétain himself had never truly participated in the policy of state anti-Semitism, exclusion and discrimination,” the historian Jean-Pierre Azéma told the daily newspaper Le Parisien. “We discover today that Pétain was very much involved in the drafting of a text that destroys freedom.”
—New York TimesThe debate over Petain's personal involvement in the sacrifice of French Jews to the Nazis by some of their countrymen belongs to a much broader historical dialogue about why some people actively collaborated in the Holocaust, while others resisted.
