Judging Racism: Interpreting Federal Judge's Racist Obama Email

Judging Racism: Interpreting Federal Judge's Racist Obama Email
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Recently Cardozo Law Review de novo published my short law review article about a racist email that a federal trial court judge sent to people about President Obama. While the story is slightly dated, it underscores some points that my colleague, Dr. Matthew Hughey, and I--along with our contributors--made about the automaticity and subconscious nature of racial biases and their implications for evaluative judgments of the Obamas in our book The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America?. To read the article, link here.

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