Diversity is a Dangerous Set-up

In his highly useful and readable book Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice, legal scholar and historian Jonathan Kahn makes a compelling argument that, fueled by <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/103086/scientism-humanities-knowledge-theory-everything-arts-science" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">scientism</a> in the cognitive psychology and legal communities, implicit bias has become a master narrative of American race relations which displaces a focus on the unique history of American white supremacy in favor of a focus on the value of “diversity.” To support his point, Kahn provides a useful overview of 40 years of literature on affirmative action, racism, diversity, and implicit bias. His analysis is rooted in the work of legal scholars who specialize in critical race theory such as Charles Lawrence III, Ian Haney López, and Nancy Leong, and he critiques the work of legal theorist Jerry Kang and social psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald. Kahn also newly introduces the term “recreational antiracism” to describe the move to supplant anti-racist activism with the more-palatable-to-white-people focus on “diversity.” <a href="https://medium.com/space-anthropology/diversity-is-a-dangerous-set-up-8cee942e7f22">Read More</a>