The Content of Our Categories: A Cognitive Bias Approach to Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunity

By L. Krieger. 1995

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Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, background): “…because it regularly fails to adequately incorporate ideas about discrimination that are accepted by sociology [8] or behavioral psychology [46, 51], even existing law relies on the deeply contextual nature of the question, with differences depending on attribute (e.g. race, gender,…”
The Deadly Challenges of Raising African American Boys (2016, background): “Legal scholar Krieger (1995) argues that the law has a flawed understanding of racial prejudice and that, rather than being an active and explicit set of beliefs, racism operates by shaping our perceptions of behaviors.”