The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

am also an expert in the psychology of bias.

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele as well as the article “The Matter of Black Lives” by Jelani Cobb, published in the New Yorker.

America is not always the country it means to be.

I am good at talking with people. I am good at asking questions. I am good at listening to people. I am good at learning new perspectives. These are the skills that help generate light.

“appalling silence of the good people.”

We all fall into this pattern. We fish for affirmation. We center our needs, nudging away the needs of others. We seek what activists call “cookies,” acknowledgments of our good intentions, even when the impact is costly to the cookie giver.

how to fight bias at the person-to-person and person-to-system levels.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes of the dangers of cookies in her novel Americanah.

implicit (also known as unconscious) bias