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The TED talk “How racial bias works - and how to disrupt it” (2020) by psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt refers to how racial bias works, along with how to disrupt it.
Eberhardt digs into how our brains understand the world by creating patterns. She explains how patterns feed the minds of our unconscious bias that links to targeting and unfairly treating black people in the society.
For exam-ple, chances of receiving a death sentence, policing, treatment at school, and being associated with danger.
To face the unfair treatment, Eberhardt, therefore, represents a solution that can be incorpo-rated. A solution meant to function as a stepping stone towards changing the unconsciousness of racial bias.
Analytical essay:
Is ‘never just a book by its covers just a saying’, or truly actuated? Our brains have since birth created different categories to make sense of the world.
Categories such as your quick choice of acting depend on recognizing a pattern. A person with glasses? Nerd. Blonde girl? Stupid.
The ability to categorize people and their patterns by the color of their skin is a form of our unconscious racial bias.
The bias leads to higher chances of being sentenced to death, associated with danger and generally unfair targeting towards black people.
In the powerful talk, “How racial bias works - and how to disrupt it” (2020) psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt informs as well as argues for how the racial bias towards black people, still is a part of our society based on researches and her personal experiences.
In the TED talk, the sender is a reliable source and uses the form of appeals . The sender also being the protagonist is Eberhardt. Her identity is centered on the use of ethos. "Jennifer L. Eberhardt is a social psychologist at Stanford University” (page 1).
Eberhardt working as a social psychologist at Stanford University, being one of the world's leading teaching and research institutions , highlights the sender resembling reliability, thus the form of appeal Ethos .
Furthermore, Ethos can be seen in her choice of clothing (00:01:10-00:01:20). In these frames Eberhardt dressing up nicely comprehends the sender being serious and likewise looks like an expert, hence appearing more trustworthy.
Eberhardt working as a social psychologist researching inequality and race argues from statistics - being the second form of appeal, Logos. “In a large data set of death-eligible defendants we found that looking more black more than doubled their chances of receiving a death sentence – at least when their victims were white” (p.1, ll.23-25).
This example of the substantial data set represents the facts and raw data behind the arguments of the sender.
The data, statistics, and research not only portray the racial bias to black people in a logical way but also advocate the protagonist appearing more trustworthy, by arguing out of possession of facts.
The intention is to inform and argue about how racial bias towards black people, is a part of our society. This elucidates Eberhardt’s personal experiences with her five-year-old son on the air-plane.
“My son, he lifts his head, and he says to me, “I hope he doesn’t rob the plane.” (p.1, ll.6-7). This example represents that we’re living in a world with such severe racial biases that a five-year-old can predict what lays ahead of us.
In addition, Eberhardt’s 16-year-old son has a lot of experience with being on the receiving end of racial bias himself.
“It was a talisman he used to pro-tect himself, a survival skill he had honed over thousands of elevator rides. He was learning to ac-commodate the tension that his skin color generated and that put his own life at risk” (p.3, ll.97-98).
This example argues for how her son uses accommodate basic gestures, as a survival skill, to lower the fears of strangers being trapped with an individual associated with danger. In other words, a survival skill against the racial bias towards black people.
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