The Non-Performativity of Implicit Bias Training
Implicit bias training is an increasingly common educational intervention in institutions throughout the U.S. I explore the potential of implicit bias training to challenge violent police racism through participant observation in a training for police officers. I pay special attention to what is mis...
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| description | Implicit bias training is an increasingly common educational intervention in institutions throughout the U.S. I explore the potential of implicit bias training to challenge violent police racism through participant observation in a training for police officers. I pay special attention to what is missing: the voices of those targeted by racist policing, and what is treated as equivalent: white male experience and the figure of the human. Implicit bias trainings risk promoting more adaptive racism in policing through the coaching of participants into the performance of colorblind racism. The training functions as what Sara Ahmed has identified as “the non-performativity of anti-racism”—ostensibly anti-racist (non)practices that maintain contemporary racist realities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-36c92c71095042b38432fe30c05bb4142022-12-22T00:52:19ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghRadical Teacher1941-08322018-10-011120465410.5195/rt.2018.497273The Non-Performativity of Implicit Bias TrainingJessi Lee Jackson0unaffiliatedImplicit bias training is an increasingly common educational intervention in institutions throughout the U.S. I explore the potential of implicit bias training to challenge violent police racism through participant observation in a training for police officers. I pay special attention to what is missing: the voices of those targeted by racist policing, and what is treated as equivalent: white male experience and the figure of the human. Implicit bias trainings risk promoting more adaptive racism in policing through the coaching of participants into the performance of colorblind racism. The training functions as what Sara Ahmed has identified as “the non-performativity of anti-racism”—ostensibly anti-racist (non)practices that maintain contemporary racist realities.http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/497 |
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