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The harm of unexamined stereotypes

As Ms Nordell knows, the very concept of unconscious bias can sound exculpatory

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The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Jennifer Szalai | NYT
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Author: Jessica Nordell
Publisher: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co
Price: $28.99
Pages: 353

The varieties of awfulness are myriad, with people mistreating one another for any number of reasons, but in The End of Bias, Jessica Nordell guides us through bad behaviour of one particular kind. Instead of the “unvarnished cruelty” of the person who deliberately inflicts suffering, she turns our attention to something less brazen and more insidious: the harm that people wreak unthinkingly and unintentionally because they hold unexamined stereotypes.

“Most people do not go into their professions with the

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