Please join us for the next Dayton Literary Peace Prize Virtual Book Club. We will be reading Jennifer Eberhardt’s Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, the 2020 DLPP Nonfiction Runner-up and a book that should be a universal read. Bryan Stevenson, DLPP’s 2015 Nonfiction Winner for Just Mercy calls it “Groundbreaking,” and we hope it will lead to bias breaking. Ms. Eberhardt will be with us in November for the awards ceremony.
A little about the book from the publisher:
From one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias comes stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time.
How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society—in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving.
“The hope for progress is greatly increased by Jennifer Eberhardt’s groundbreaking new book on implicit bias. Biased presents the science of bias with rare insight and accessibility, but it is also a work with the power and craft to make us see why overcoming racial bias is so critical.”
—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy, DLPP 2015 Nonfiction Winner
Additional reviews:
“A fascinating new book… [Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is] a genius.”
—Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
“Groundbreaking.”
—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy
“Powerful…useful for those new to the topic as well as those well-versed in the topic. Eberhardt abandons the jargon-speak of academic research and speaks to the reader’s head, heart, and soul [and] will make you think about the news, your neighborhood, your work place and yourself with fresh eyes.”
—Forbes
“An immensely informative and insightful analysis of race-based stereotypes. [Eberhardt] also offers practical suggestions for managing mechanisms of prejudice that ‘are rooted in the structures of our brains.’”
—Psychology Today
“Explores the reasons for bias of all kinds — racial, religious, gender and more — and lays out research-based strategies that can short-circuit our initial prejudices.”
—New York Post
“[A] timely, exhaustive investigation of how bias infiltrates every sector of public and private life… Eberhardt offers tips for reforming business practices, police departments, and day-to-day interactions in pursuit of a fairer world for everyone.”
—Esquire.com
About the Author:
Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is a professor of psychology at Stanford and a recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “genius” grant. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was named one of Foreign Policy‘s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. She is co-founder and co-director of SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions), a Stanford Center that brings together researchers and practitioners to address significant social problems.
