This book explores how scientific evidence on the human mind might help to explain why racial equality is so elusive. Through the lens of powerful and pervasive

Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Boo

Of the many obstacles to racial justice in America, none has received more recent attention than the one that lurks in our subconscious. As social movements and

"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review "Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy

This book helps explain how many who pride themselves on being fair can be part of a system which is widely seen as unfair by those who have historically been v