Opinion
Claims of blameless, unconscious racism are easily unmasked
28 February 2021 - 00:00
I have never been a fan of the name given to the sociological phenomenon known as unconscious or implicit racial bias. The term was coined in 1995 by US academics Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, and has since been made popular by the free online implicit association tests developed by Harvard University, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington...
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