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The Science of Racism - Keon West

The Science of Racism

Everything you need to know but probably don't - yet

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Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2025
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-0350-3066-8 (ISBN)
CHF 29,65 inkl. MwSt
How do we know if racism really exists? And, if it does, how big a problem is it for the outcomes of people of colour? Only science has the answers to some of society's most pressing questions.
Polls show that half of us think racism doesn’t exist . . .

'Illuminating, surprising, unnerving, moving . . . and, sadly, utterly necessary' - Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland

In the ground-breaking The Science of Racism Professor Keon West cuts through the divisive anecdotes and rhetoric with decades’ worth of clear, factual, rigorous science – the data that reveals truths about racism that are shocking and tragic, but also (somehow) funny and entertaining.

He explains how we know, for example, that Black people are up to 50 per cent less likely to be called in to interview than identically qualified White people. He shows how we know the financial cost of selling items online while Black. He reveals the effects of racism on our friendships, relationships, healthcare and justice system. And he exposes the continued prevalence of racism, and the inadequacy of our many attempts to address it.

Whatever you’ve read before, this book will ensure that you never see racism in the same way again.

Professor Keon West is a social psychologist at the University of London. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University in 2010 as a Rhodes Scholar and has since published more than seventy quantitative papers on prejudice and discrimination in many of the best peer-reviewed social-psychology journals, including Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Perspectives on Psychological Science. Professor West has written for national and international newspapers and been the host of numerous radio and television shows on the topics of prejudice and discrimination. He is a citizen of three countries and has, over his life, been a resident of four. He is a husband, a father of two boys, a hobby photographer and a huge fan of Star Trek. He has always been Black. He is the co-author of the audiobook Skewed. The Science of Racism is his second book.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 235 mm
Gewicht 434 g
Themenwelt Informatik Datenbanken Data Warehouse / Data Mining
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-0350-3066-7 / 1035030667
ISBN-13 978-1-0350-3066-8 / 9781035030668
Zustand Neuware
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